Solnør is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

farm in

Skodje Skodje (''pronunciation'': kɔʏəor køʏə is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It was part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre was the village of Skodje. The other main village in the municipality ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is t ...

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 Ludvig Daae may refer to: *Ludvig Daae (priest) (1723–1786), Norwegian priest and landowner *Ludvig Kristensen Daa (1809–1877), Norwegian historian and politician *Ludvig Daae (politician) (1829–1893), Norwegian politician *Ludvig Ludvigsen D ...

; 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, Møre og Ro ...

. During his travels in

Western Norway Western Norway ( nb, Vestlandet, Vest-Norge; nn, Vest-Noreg) is the region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway. It consists of the counties Rogaland, Vestland, and Møre og Romsdal. The region has no official or political-administrat ...

in the summer of 1862,

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential pla ...

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

Rosmersholm ''Rosmersholm'' () is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in Danish—the common written language of Denmark and Norway at the time—and originally published in 1886 in Copenhagen by the Danish publisher Gyldendal. ''Rosmershol ...

'' (it may also have been inspired by the Molde farm in Molde and the parsonage farm in Herøy, 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.

Magdalene Thoresen Anna Magdalene Thoresen, née Kragh (3 June 1819 – 28 March 1903) was a Danish-born Norwegian poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is said to have inspired a number of other writers to model characters after her. Her step ...

, 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 v ...

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 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 ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano- ...

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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