Landrud

The dot is the farm’s probable place; the map register names more than one spot that could be it.

Landrud lies on the slope south above Bakke, separated from Bakke sometime in the Middle Ages. The farm namefarm name In rural Norway a family often took the name of the farm it lived on, and changed it when it moved. Emigrants often kept one as their American surname: Aamodt became Amoth. All the words tells us it was originally meadow land cleared between 1100 and 1350. The tax was six skinn from old times. It likely declined after the Black Death—by the 1600s it was listed as a holding under Vamre.

Stener held Landrud from 1839 to 1862, when he sold it to his youngest son Tollef. The farm had one crofter's cottage (Gvasshaug) and two summer mountain farms: Hovda (the home farm, now discontinued) and Skjenholtet (still in operation). The oldest part of the cottage building had ancient and unusual log-layering.

This is the farm history's account (Landrud 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.