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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2013 - 01:19pm PT
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Nitahå-Jussi is said to have been the last wanderer at Finnskogen. He knew the woods well and took a job where he found it, when he needed it. He lived and worked for a while in the US, but returned to Sweden to take over the farm after his father's death. Someone had illegally taken the farm and years of juridical trouble started. In the film "Finnskog and trollskap" we are following Jussi. The film made him "famous", as did the book that was written about him. The book carried his own name. He was still active as an old man - as you see from the picture. I think he's in his 80's. The film "Finnskog and trollskap" has finally reached dvd and is now to be bought. In that film I can also see my great grandfather on my father's side - Laurits - a man worth his own film.
Some of the quotes living after Jussi:
"These woods are my woods, though I do not own them."
"I'm following the bird-paths."
"There's a trick to solve everything." (Det er et knep ved alt)
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 10:52am PT
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Finnskogen this weekend
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 11:13am PT
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 11:21am PT
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A couple of tractors at Finnskogen
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 12:59pm PT
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Finnskogdagene 2013 Gottlundmarsjen 1
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 12:59pm PT
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Finnskogdagene 2013 Gottlundmarsjen 2
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 14, 2013 - 01:55pm PT
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Roy, tusen takk for alt this! I really enjoyed the Forest Finns video and the music vids.
I never knew anything about Finnskogen. What a hard life. Did you grow up in Hedmark?
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2013 - 02:00pm PT
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Reilly
Yes, I grew up in Hedmark. Mostly Sønsterud close to Flisa, but also Gjesåsen, Løten and Kongsvinger (if you know the local geography).
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2013 - 03:01pm PT
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The history of timber floating in Rotna - written 1983 by Jakob Ryen, an uncle of my mother. The floating in Rotna ended in 1965.
Ed: MH2 - That's sweet - it's the first time I'm exposed to the Canadian log driving bit. lol...
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MH2
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Jul 19, 2013 - 03:12pm PT
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Ha, Ha! Mighty fine.
A possibly relevant albeit over-exposed Canadian log-driving bit:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2013 - 02:25pm PT
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Roy Lønhøiden plays "Gjennom Livet" ("Through Life") from his record "Sanger fra skogen" ("Songs from the forest")
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2013 - 12:19pm PT
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A poem by Dan Andersson, a poet from the forest, translated in the original metres by C.D. Locock (1929):
Song
My love was born in the sweet of the year,
By the banks of a rippling, hurrying river;
Wild nectar I quaffed in my youth-days there,
In dew-drenced meads where the moonbeams quiver.
My love was born where the salmon leap
In Paiso's river of waters dancing;
And it grew to a melody sung in sleep,
A wild man's revel, a tale entrancing.
It seethed in my blood like a draught divine,
Born anew with each Springs returning,
When the world goes reeling, as drunk with wine,
And Earth and Heaven are burning.
But never more have I loved as then
In the moon of roses by Paiso's river;
My love grows grey, nor findeth again
Sweet nectar in meads where the moonbeams quiver.
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2013 - 01:33pm PT
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Finnskogen and mountains - a great fantasy. In Norway the closest you get to this painting, this dream, is in Trysil.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 25, 2013 - 06:01pm PT
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Jeg aer i Finnskogen av Nord Amerika - the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. You would feel right at home here, Marlow. I'm visiting the old family farm, now owned by others :-(
They have let it go so maybe I can get it back cheaply.
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2013 - 03:34am PT
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Reilly
My best wishes for you and the old family farm. Do you have any photos from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? Be free to post them on this thread.
Edit.: Here's a picures I found on the web showing a lot of similarities between the two landscapes:
Some differences: The Michigan peninsula has a great "coastal" line that you do not find at Finnskogen, where you have smaller lakes. And I think Finnskogen is generally more dominated by pine and spruce than the Michigan peninsula. The peninsula is as I can see extremely colour-rich in the autumn when the leaves change their ways - as seen from this picture:
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2013 - 12:03pm PT
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Dan Andersson - Heldagskväll i timmerkojan
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Dan Andersson's first book (1914) - Kolarhistorier. Cost: Swedish kroner 1,-
Joakim Thåström singing his song "Om Black Jim" - a song about Dan Andersson who died 32 years old from cyanid poisoning in a bed at room 11 at Hotel Hellman in Stockholm. Choose your hotel room with care when you get to Stockholm...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 28, 2013 - 12:39pm PT
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Marlow, fotos to come when I reach a computer. Saw wolf tracks a few days ago, big ones.
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