This book follows the early life of my great-grandparents, Severina Berentsdatter and Christian Edwardson, her parents, and her maternal grandmothers and grandfathers in Norway. Severina was born on the �rrestad farm in Sokndal Parish, Rogaland County, and Christian was born on the Indre Mydland farm in the same parish and county. The couple settled in Brown County, Kansas.