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From: "Dennis L. Haarsager" <>
Subject: Re: Unwed Parents and Other Customs In Ã…rdal
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 19:10:19 -0800


Just to be clear, in talking about rural poverty in Norway, I was referring
to the period of high emigration -- the last half of the 19th century.

Dennis

At 08:32 PM 12/1/98 GMT, you wrote:
>I don't think that it can't be so bad.
>I'm born just after wwII and my brother the first year of the war, but
>even as my parents was ordinary people and that there was not much money
>it is not correct to say that people in general was poor in Norway.
>In the period between wwI and wwII the situation was quite different and
>it will not be correct to use that image for the situation from 1945 and
>to present.

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