Gladheim

Gladheim was documented as early as 1457, when Torgeir traded the whole farm and half the mill site in Omdalen for property in Hjartdal. The farm had a complex ownership history through the 1600s and early 1700s before Knut Olsson bought half in 1746 and the other half in 1759, uniting it under one owner.

The mountain properties Skrykken and Dagfisket were a recurring subject of legal proceedings. In 1722, Per Gladheim produced legal documents from 1472, 1599, and 1693 to win through. The fishing rights on the Hardangervidda remained with the family for generations.

Per Knutsson divided Gladheim between sons Knut (south) and Halvor (north) in 1798. At the 1801 census, thirty people lived across Gladheim and its three underlying cotter places. Per and Ingebjørg retired to Omdalen and both died in 1815 of fever.

The northern half of Gladheim, received by Halvor Persson in the 1798 division. Not formally divided until 1811. The 1819 land register records three cotter places (Omdalen, Hvetelplassen, Møllbrekka), summer grazing and forest in common with Søre Gladheim, and capacity for five loads of timber and forty loads of wood annually.

Halvor and Helga farmed well and were careful with finances. Halvor paid thirty-two speciedalerdaler The silver money Norway counted in before the krone of 1875: the riksdaler, and from 1816 the speciedaler. In the 1830s a farm in Veggli sold for a few hundred speciedaler. All the words in the 1816 silver tax—three times what the southern farm paid. He preserved the fishing rights at Skrykken and Dagfisket in 1826. Stener was born here in 1802.

The home farm of Live Persdotter, who married Knut Olsson and was praised by the priest as 'the most worthy woman in Veggli church and the church congregation.' Knut Olsson took over Glaim in 1746 before consolidating Gladheim.

This is the farm history's account (Gladheim 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; Gladheim Bygdebok (Nordre section); Gladheim Bygdebok, Rollag Bygdebok I (p. 363–364)), 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.