Søndre Fjeld (Sø-Fjell)
The name Fjell means mountain/hill/rock and accurately describes
the location of the Fjell farms.
The Fjell farms are mountain farms with a view overlooking
Breien, Hestekind, Bjørnødegard and Tonsåsen. They were once
one unit, owned by the King of Denmark and Norway and operated
by the Church of Aurdal.
Fjell was actually used as summer pastures for the Aurdal
Church Farms. Mattis Olsson worked for the Prest in Aurdal
who, at that time, was Peder Hansen Colding, originally from
Denmark. Mattis and his descendants gradually took over the
property, but the farm was divided into three units (Nord-Fjell,
Sø-Fjell and Me-Fjell) and other families came in.
Like the other two Fjell farms Sø-Fjell was empty from the
time of the "Black Death" until 1590 or so. The farm was Krongods
from the time after the "Black Death". The king kept the farm
until 1692 when he sold it to Margretha Wilders. She sold
it three years later in 1695 to Overkrigskommissar Braem and
Capt. Leegaard. They in turn sold the farm to Christian P.
Kleboe. In 1707 Christian sold the farm to Bjørn Frøysaker.
Ole Amundson and Marta Bjørnsdatter purchased the land from
Bjørn Frøysaker in 1723. They lived here a short time and
sold the farm to Knut Tidemandson Ton. It was Knut that seperated
the farms into the two seperate farms in 1733. He sold one
portion to Anders G. Åsen and the other farm was sold to Ole
Johansson and Ingeborg Gundersdatter.
Sources: Gard og Bygde i Etnedal Book C, page 111
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