![]() It was there that, in 1882, I first saw the light of day – the eldest of three sisters. ![]() Since most of my father’s life consisted of travelling to almost every part of Europe, he set up a temporary home at Kallundborg. ![]() In the same year he married my mother, Charlotte Gyth of Kallundborg, whose family had, for some obscure reason, settled in Denmark toward the end of the eighteenth century. My father, Ingvald Martin Undset, obtained his doctorate in 1881 with a thesis on The Beginnings of the Iron Age in Northern Europe. He took the name of Undset from a hamlet in which my grandmother had lived when she became a widow. My father’s folk remained there until my grandfather, Halvor Halvorsen, came to Trondhjem as a non-commissioned officer and became warden of a workhouse. The first ancestor of ours of whom anything at all was known was one Peder Halvorsen who, in 1730, lived in Grytdalen in the Sollien valley of the river Atna where some men from Østerdalen had been allowed to settle and farm the land. M y father’s family came from Østerdalen. ![]()
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