Solnør is a Norwegian farm in

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county. The farm has been known since the Middle Ages because it was a subordinate estate, known as '' Giskegods''. The farmhouse was built by the officer Ludvig Daae (1792–1879) in 1825 and it received protected status in 1939. The house has a double-room layout with a central corridor, and the exterior has a classical symmetrical style with a large dormer and the main entrance in the middle of the facade. The door frame has a classical style with an arch over the top and columns. The farm was purchased by Ludvig Daae in 1820, and it was taken over by his son, the politician Ludvig Daae; the two men were the uncle and cousin of

Suzannah Ibsen Suzannah Ibsen (née Thoresen; 26 June 1836 – 3 April 1914) was a Norwegian woman who was the wife of playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen and mother of noted politician Sigurd Ibsen. Biography Suzannah Daae Thoresen was born in Herøy, Norway. He ...

. During his travels in

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in the summer of 1862,

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...

visited his wife's relatives at Solnør. The farm may have served as an inspiration for his play ''

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'' (it may also have been inspired by the Molde farm in

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and the parsonage farm in Herøy Municipality, where Suzannah grew up). Ibsen arrived at Solnør on July 16, 1862 and also became acquainted with the local historian

Peder Fylling Peder Carolus Jonsen Fylling, also known as Per Fylling (September 26, 1818 – November 3, 1890), was a Norwegian folk material collector, book and antique collector, local historian, and author of cultural history books and articles. Fylling was ...

there. Ibsen copied or received a collection of local oral traditions from Fylling.

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, Ibsens mother-in-law, was also at Solnør and met Peder Fylling. Thoresen used the lore that Fylling provided her with in her volume ''Billeder fra Vestkysten af Norge'' (Pictures from the West Coast of Norway, 1872). Ludvig Daae hired the young

Ivar Aasen Ivar Andreas Aasen (; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembled one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk, from ...

as a private teacher for his children. It was during his time at Solnør that Ivar Aasen formulated his

Nynorsk Nynorsk (; ) is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language (''Landsmål''), parallel to the Da ...

program in the essay "Om vort Skriftsprog" (Our Written Language). Aasen had previously taught at the home of

Hans Conrad Thoresen Hans Conrad Thoresen (July 28, 1802 – June 11, 1858) was a Norwegian priest, a member of the Storting, and Henrik Ibsen's father-in-law. Thoresen was born the son of a cooper in Tønsberg. He passed his theological exam in 1825 and served as a ...

, Ludvig Daee's brother-in-law and Ibsen's father-in-law. Aasen spent seven years at Solnør, and during that time he began studying the Sunnmøre dialect and also studied the plant life in the area.

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