Robert Heiling <robheil@comcast.net> wrote in news:423EE0DF.27259F59 @comcast.net: > Stein R wrote: > >> Robert Heiling <robheil@comcast.net> wrote in >> news:42003BD3.597FED43@comcast.net: >> >> > Rob Gray wrote: >> > >> >> Can anyone tell me what the writing on the document linked below >> >> means in English? Also, does anyone know about when/where it was >> >> made? >> >> >> >> Thank you in advance for any ideas. >> >> >> >> http://home.epix.net/~robgray/temp/print1.jpg >> >> Rob >> >> USA >> > >> > Simply "man & wife of the Rejndalen parish in the Agershuus >> > bishopric". The fact that the same saying is in both German >> > & Danish would make me suspect that it might be alluding to >> > somewhere in the previously contested Schlesvig-Holstein >> > area of Denmark. >> > >> > Bob >> >> Akershus (old spelling Agershuus) has never been in the ex- >> treme south of the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, on the border >> with present day Germany. Agershuus (meaning the house/fortress >> at Aker, ie Oslo) is the area east of Oslo in present day Norway. > > Hei Stein. I corrected that Denmark statement over 7 weeks ago. :-) Apparently that corrected post had timed out on my news server - I only saw your incorrect answer from feb 2nd. Never mind - such are the nature of newsgroups - propagation is uneven, and there is no guarantee that all messages will be there in the right order on any given newsserver at any given time :-) >> These days Akershus is fairly small, but in the olden days, >> the diocese/bishopric covered pretty much everything south of >> Trondheim and east of the mountainous spine of Norway. >> >> This must be quite a while back, judged by the spelling. So >> this is probably Rendalen parish in present day Hedmark fylke >> (province), between Oslo and Trondheim, not too far from the >> city of Røros. > > That was explained also by others. That's good. Thought I had read through all the answers still kept on my local newsserver before following up myself, but better you get two answers than none :-) Oh well, back to my own research, then. Grin, Stein