VIKING VENDETTA

THE STORY WITHIN THE STORY

I grew up in a Norwegian family, so never thought much about Genealogy.  Then, my mother’s cousin and her husband visited Norway.  She had no actual person to contact in Norway, but only an address she had gotten out of a family album.

She told me about landing at the airport in mid-Norge (Middle Norway) at a town called Trondheim, from where our family had originally emigrated.  

“I looked out the airplane window,” she said, “and couldn’t believe it.  Groups of people stood on the edge of the field, cheering and waving American flags.  When we entered the terminal, we were surrounded by laughing, crying, cheering people, all shaking our hands.”   

She told me about putting her name in what she called, ‘The Book.’  This is a history of people born in Trondheim who have moved to other countries.   

Both of my grandparents, who had moved to North Dakota, were in the book as were my parents.  She even placed my name in the book.

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