Source: Telemark to America

Volume II - Settlements

© 1992, Telelag of America

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Sondre Sondreson travelled from Graver first, over toward the Arendal region, then to America about 1840.  His wife was called Ingileiv.  They settled at Koshkonong.  Sondre had come from Skaalebø at Tinn.  He died when a rangleorm (rattlesnake) bit through his boot, so the tooth went into his big toe.  The tooth stayed in the boot.  The saga tells that Ingileiv married again, but the man died right away.  He was wearing Sondre's boots, and the snake's tooth pricked his toe, and he died of it.  The same thing happened to the third man Ingileiv married.  He also wore the boots, but when he was dead they cut up the boot and then they found the tooth of the snake.

Kristi Graver from Fyresdal came to America in 1845 (sic) with two daughters and two sons, Olav, Tarjei, Tone and Aase.  They left on Jonsok (St John's Day, Midsummer Day, June 24) and didn't come ashore till late in the fall at New Orleans...