Gjellerud

The largest farm in Flesberg and the seat of the lensmannlensmann A Norwegian rural official, usually one of the district's farmers, who served as sheriff. He assisted the bailiff and the court, witnessed probate, and made arrests. All the words (sheriff). Margit Høljesdotter married into Gjellerud around 1600. Her husband Olav Gudbrandson was the wealthiest landowner in the parish—in 1644, no one else in Flesberg owned as much land.

The Gjellerud stugu (main house) has the year 1300 carved in the porch. Tree-ring analysis shows the logs were felled in 1591. Researchers debate whether the 1300 date refers to an older building on the same site.

A Black Death legend persists: a girl survived at Gjellerud, hiding under a trough when she saw a figure crossing the Lågen. A boy from Bakke found her. They married and became 'the first people in the valley after the Plague.'

This is the farm history's account (Gjellerud Bygdebokbygdebok (plural bygdebøker) A Norwegian local history, usually a few volumes per district, going farm by farm through who lived there and when. Compiled from church registers, censuses, probate, tax and court records. The Kjemhus line comes from the ones for Flesberg and Rollag. All the words), as the Kjemhus page has told it. It hasn't yet been checked against the original records; a fuller write-up from them is to come.