Ødegård

The Johannes Granum Farm in 1988


Google Earth (WGS 84) 60 59.884'N 10 35.575'E

Jim Gordon was the organizer of this trip to Norway in 1988, one of many things we visited was the Johannes Granum farm, which we call Ødegård. Jim narrates it thusly: "Now, this is the same house that Charles photographed, and you'll notice, if I remember right in his photograph there was a third window. The house has been remodeled; and I remember this structure here. It seems to me that his photograph was reversed, this way. Also, please note that on this property they grow raspberries, so that must be where I got my great interest in raspberries. There's a little forest in the back, I'm hoping Michael can convey the steepness of this place."

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The photograph is a composite, made from a video motion picture, capturing frames using the SNAPPY™ frame grabbing device (click on SNAPPY for a description), and merged using Corel Photopaint with some hand-blending. In fact, all of these images were captured using SNAPPY.


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Drive north from Oslo on E6, past Hamar, enroute to Lillehammer. North of Moelv, watch for the Bröttum railway station. A short distance after that, the road splits to the right, as you can see in this fuzzy photograph made from a video. In fact, all these photos came from a video.

UPDATE: This location is viewable on Google Earth Street View at 60 59.625'N 10 35.976'E.

A dirt road ascends steeply on the east bank of Mjosa. It proceeds northward past another farm, then turns sharply back southward up to the point indicated. From the highway, the farmhouse cannot be seen.

Up the hill we go. The steep sides of the hill constitute the actual farm, and is good primarily for growing hay. Small gardens can be grown on terraces.

Having just passed the first farm, we turn right (southeast) to finish the climb.

Jim Gordon (on right) introducing Johannes Granum, the present owner of the farm.
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A photo of the nearby barn. It is very ancient.

Behind the house, uphill from it, is a fenced area for growing berries, Raspberries I think. You can see by the angle of the posts and beams how steeply graded the hill is.

A view northwestward from the house, overlooking Mjosa.

A view southwest over Mjosa. Notice the hay drying in the foreground.

Southward in the distance, the bridge over to Gjovik. Nes is on the left side, Gjovik on the right; and it crosses Mjosa.

Jim wondering if this tree is old enough to have been here when his great-grandfather Hans Larson worked here.
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Johannes Granum (left) visiting with Liv Marit Fossum (center) and Finn Fossum (right)

A view of the house on the side nearest Lillihammer (north by northwest).
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The foundation stones of the house. These were laid in AD 1750 or so.

"We have just learned that this tree is 200 years old, so that means Hans Larson and all of his children that were born in Norway have seen this tree."
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Flowers in the garden

Finn Fossum, our host and navigator for this adventure.

View northwest as we descend from the farm.

The panoramic view of Mjosa (south on the left, north on the right) as seen from the farm.

Photographs were converted from video by using the "Snappy" frame grabber device. It is a slick device that connects to your computer's printer port, and takes a video input. Michael Gordon made the video movies, also did the image conversion and made this page, too. Email: mgordon@orneveien.org