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PRESSEMELDING
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Premiere på “Røyster mellom to land” i Emigrantkyrkja – 8. mars 2026 Sundag 8. mars 2026, på sjølve kvinnedagen, vert det premiere på konsertframsyninga “Røyster mellom to land “ i Emigrantkyrkja, Sletta. Publikum vert med denne framsyninga invitert inn i ei sterk og poetisk forteljing om ulike kvinner frå Vestlandet som utvandra til Amerika…
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Listen to the voices of Norwegian emigrant women during the Christmas holidays and again in 2026 — and don’t forget March 8!
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Here in December 2025, we have met ten Norwegian women who represent many of the 750,000 Norwegians who emigrated—and whose lives were shaped by dramatic journeys, adventurous events, great dreams, freedom, poverty, harsh working conditions, heavy losses, and painful memories. The voices, memories, experiences, and everyday lives of these ten women form the substance of the book…
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“The Pastor’s Wife” — with Norwegian roots and four daughters
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Pernille Henrikke Blomelie forlader Aga på Fitjar i 1916, 23 år gammel, og rejser til Amerika, hvor hendes mor og søskende allerede bor. Pernille møder Olaf Blomelie. De bliver gift i 1919. Han bliver præst. Hun er nu præstekone Nellie. De tjener sammen i flere missionskirker og flytter til Alberta, i Canada: Det er julaftan,…
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Travel Fever
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– Eit år i Amerika, fyrste verdenskrig og retur til Noreg Elise Myklebust frå Valdalen reiser til Amerika i 1914, 21 år gammal, saman med systrene Line og Karoline, som har kome heim på vitjing – kledde i glinsande kåper og hattar med sløyfer. Portland i Oregon er staden. Karoline skaffar Elise arbeid hos…
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The Ninth Daughter
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—not a longed-for son, but a nursing angel in America! The Statue of Liberty—with its green flame—meets Gjertine upon her arrival in America in 1925. “She had never seen anything so great, so immovable, and yet so alive. Behind her lay the ocean. Before her—America.” (p. 92 in Remember the Ladies!). Gjertine is from Huftaøy…
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I Carried It With Me
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– to carry two countries within oneself, with memories, church song, and love. Bertha from Balestrand left for America—against her will—at the age of eighteen. The entire family traveled, urged on by her stepmother Britta: her father, her stepmother, two younger siblings, and two uncles who had already emigrated and were visiting Balestrand. “Now she sat in America, an …”
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A Seed In Foreign Soil
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– Sigurda sine dikt, broderi, bunader, folkedans og aktivitet i Daugthers of Norway «Ho la ifrå seg kjolen, batt fletta saman med ei reim, og dyppa kroppen i det iskalde blå vatnet. Stille. Eit drag over brystkassa. Ein rytme i armane. Ho visste ikkje kva ho symde mot, berre at ho ikkje kunne stogga.…
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Ride, Ride , Ranke
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Sigfrid Ohrt was ten years old when she emigrated to America together with her mother and siblings in 1901, after her father had gone ahead—fleeing debt, the police, and a forced auction. Sigrid starts school. “School was different. The language even more so. The teacher forbade Norwegian” (p. 43 in Remember the Women!). This resembles what the Sámi experienced…
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The Scream Over The Water
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The moonlight cut into the room; three small shadows sat together on the floor. Children. Dirty cheeks, trembling hands, hair tangled into a chaos of knots. (p. 35 in Remember the Women!). The oldest child is Charlotte Sofie Nilsen. Her parents emigrate to America in 1882. Without Charlotte. She learns “how to become invisible”—like those…
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I Carried It With Me
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Bygd over intervju med Bertha Sylliaasen (1888-1992) Ho sat på ein benk i skuggen av ein syrinbusk, og fjellet i ryggen var bratt og stille. Det var sein ettermiddag, og hagen låg bada i det bleike ljoset som kom skråande over taket til nabohuset. Brevet låg i fanget hennar, bretta opp att og med…