Lehøvd

The name is pronounced /le:høvd/. The first thing known about Lehøvd is found in a 1580 letter that still exists on the farm—the oldest document in the family line. Hellek Kittilson sold a third share of the deserted farm to Hølje Sevatson for three dalerdaler 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.

The farm had been empty since the Black Death, roughly two centuries. In 1580, they counted two old farms with the name Lehøvd, pointing back to conditions before the plague when there were more people in Flesberg. Hølje became the owner of both old holdings.

The Lehøvd men were 'through several generations, much used when there were appraisals, probates, boundary markings, and such things to be done, so good judgment clearly followed the lineage.' On Western (Upper) Lehøvd, Hølje's lineage remained for nearly 400 consecutive years.

This is the farm history's account (Lehøvd 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 (Halvard Trælnes)), 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.