Subtitle

Grain and class distinction : 1660-1840

Volume

3

E-book

http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2010081708056

Author(s)

Anna Tranberg

Year

1993

Publisher

Brøttum historielag Ringsaker historielag Veldre historielag

ISBN

8299175666, 8299175623

Pages

376

Part of the work

Ringsakboka

Source

BIBSYS

Photographer Jan Haug has been photo editor and designed the book

Fertile fields I		7
I. Livelihoods and production		9
February		10
Size of the livestock farm		10
	The sources	10
	The development 1657-1808	11
	Difference between mills	13
	Difference between parishes	15
Grazing		16
Winter feed		18
Hester		21
	Horseshoe cutters	23
	Equine diseases	24
	Veterinarians	24
Sour		25
goats		27
Pigs		27
Poultry		29
Cattle		30
	How much milk?	32
	The snake brought happiness	36

Arable farming		39
Ardbruk and harvesting farms		40
How many foll?		47
More grain		49
Grain areas		50
Plant growth and diet		52
	Barley, oats, mixed grain, wheat	52
	Rug	53
	pea	56
	Potatoes	56
	Horticulture	58
	Linen and hemp	59
Grain farming and diet		60
Grain for the mill		63
"Great Thoughtfulness and Industrial Sense"		68
"The shining example of deserving farmers"		68
An environment of enterprising big farmers		70

Production and the market		72
Farming adapted to the market		73
Cream spirit		74
A virtue of necessity?		76
The markets		77
Commercial vessels		83
How much grain was sold?		84
Brennevin		85
	"That's good enough for the Norwegians"	87
	Liquor by the truckload	88
	From farm distilleries to factory	89
Textiles		91
	Why did it become textile sales?	92
	"Textile factories"	93
	Many thousands of cubits	94
	From linen products to potato spirits	96
"Factory operation"		98
	Brickworks	98
	Potash coking plant	99
	Tar plant	99
	Lime kilns and limestone	100
	The sandstone quarry in Narudberget	101
Trade and cultural dissemination		101

Production for own use		102
Mat		104
Clothes		105
	Buying material	106
	Who sewed the clothes?	108
Wood		109
	Home forest	109
	Space people and wood	110
	The commons forest	110
	Angled saw tables	112
Wood is used for so many things		114
	Firewood and fireplace	114
	Skigarden	118
	Buildings	120
	Tools and utensils	122
	Tar and coal	122
	Treaske	122
	The forest is picking up again	123
	Forest workers	123
Hunting		125
Fishing		127
A village in transition		130


II. So many kinds of people		132
More people		133
Births and deaths		135
	Epidemics	137
	Why did the mortality rate drop?	139
On the move		141

Wardrobes Spaces Labor		142
A new working class is emerging		144
Wood by wood, stone by stone		147
Settlers		149
	Clean-up crews in the start-up phase	151
	"The condition is good"	153
New farmers		154
	Movement on the ladder	154
	Economic crisis in the 1820s	156
	The rise and fall of spaces	158
Economic growth Population growth Social change		160
Farm community		161
	Diversity	162
Time perception Work rhythm Work discipline		165


III. Workers and householders		168
Space people		169
Size of the seats		169
Duties and rights		170
	Legislation	170
	"Clearing raw clutter"	172
	". . . when I let them call"	174
	". . . for the salary they have to work hard"	176
	". . . they should not advise themselves"	179
	". . . they should not be burdened with fees"	181
Conflicts		182
More income opportunities		185
	Craftsmanship	186
Church art: Ringsaker		192
	Gelderland	194
	Brøttum	197
	Tobacco	201
	Spirits, water and bread	203

The space family at work on the farm		205
Self-sufficient pitches		206
Piecework		206
	Field excavation	207
Daily wage work and annual cycle		208
Child births		213
The children are also working		213
Textile production		215
	Winning goes up in the spinning	216
	Production and income around 1800	217
	Berte at Ekern	218
From weaver to day laborer		219
From the loom to America		221

Power over measurements		223
Animal time		223
Matjas Nordsveen		228
Preventing distress		228
27 lashes		230
Old people		232
Widowed people		234
In first and third class		236

The servants		237
	Compulsory service	238
	". . . independence must be eradicated"	240
	". . . endured a service"	241
	Monetary wages and wages in kind	242
	Community and hierarchy	244
	Rebellion in the making	246


IV. In life and desire		247
The marriage		248
	Love from God	248
	Equal children play best	251
	The marriage market	252
	Marriage conflicts and divorces	255

Married mothers and babies		259
	Pregnant brides	260
	Flocks of children	260
	In the maternity bed	263

In want and need		265
	"As long as humans exist, rental targets become . . ."	265
	". . . lose his neck and his head is put on a pole"	267
	Kari Christensdatter	270
	Mother, child and father	272
	"The shortage of people we have in Denmark . . . "	274

Wise wives and learned doctors		275
	Wise wives	275
	Learned doctors	276
	What is illness?	278
	"French"	280
	"He who embraces himself. . ."	281


V. Social and cultural life		285
Impulse and environment		287
	Tell me who you hang out with	287
	Trade routes are also the roads of culture	294
	Kongsvegen	296
	The landscaper at Stein	302
	The church site	305
	In the house of God	305
	On the church hill	312
	The village meeting	313
	Coarse bottom	314

Cultural traits and manners		316
	Silk, coffee and teacups	316
	Guest bids under control	321
	At the table	325
	From én to two floors	326
	The hall, music and dance	335
	Throw-away beer	338
	May 17 party at Simenstadberget 1835	339
	Drinking customs	341
	School, book and library	344
	Transition school	344
	Private schools	347
	With a persistent pen	348
	At a book auction	349
	From reading society to public library	350


Fertile fields II		351
	Coin, measurements and weight	356
	Notes	356
	Sources	357
	Literature	363
	Name register	366
	Keyword index	373

Ringsakboka : village book for Brøttum - Ringsaker - Veldre

Contents

Fertile fields I

I. Livelihoods and production

II. So many kinds of people

III. Workers and householders

IV. In life and desire

V. Social and cultural life

Fertile fields II