OlesVerden

Torsdag var jeg på ny bytur. Denne gangen til Trondheim. Kom naturligvis til CitySyd, og endte med å kjøpe det som må ha vært verdens dyreste herreklipp hos Nikita. Skjønner godt hvordan “Kandidat-sjefen” har blitt så rik… blir nok siste gang Nikita-kunde, selv om selve frisøren var svært så flink og hyggelig (tilbydde med til og med kaffe mens jeg satt og klipte meg). Men, men…

Dro på en liten bytur i dag sammen med Erik. Han skulle kjøpe seg nye sko. Først prøvde vi på Strandtorget (Lillehammer) før vi tok veien til CC Mart’n (Gjøvik). Og jeg må si CC har blitt veldig stort, i alle fall siden sist jeg var der.

Det var en vindfull og kald desemberdag. Og det blåste godt da vi kjørte over Mjøsbrua. Men det var godt å komme seg ut en tur likevel . (Hvorfor vi kjørte over Mjøsbrua for å komme til Gjøvik, fordi en viss person kjørte feil i rundkjøringa

Hello – and welcome to Ole J. Rosten’s WebSite Some is in Norwegian and some is in English…

I’ve had this WebSite since 1997; and over the years I’ve got quite a few questions from people around the world (mostly from North America) about the Rosten name. Many of those writing me are searching for their family in Norway. So therefor I made this little page

My family comes from Otta in Gudbrandsdalen in Norway. This is where my parents live. I live now at Lillestrøm (just outside Oslo, the capital of Norway). The Rosten name comes from my father’s family.

Ole Jacob Rosten, 27.12.2005

Here’s a little info about the Rosten name

My fathers family comes from Rosten in Gudbrandsdalen. It’s a little place with a few farms, and my father’s family comes from one of them. Rosten is the place where the Gudbrandsdalen valley is at it’s smallest; some kilometres north of Otta. And my family now lives at Otta.

From what my father has told me some people from Rosten went to America in the early 1900s. Most of them went to the Stats by the Great Lakes in the USA and in Canada. Over the years I’ve got quite a few emails from people in America searching for family in Norway. I therefor made this little web page . But I’ve never met any “close” relative living in America.

For more information; or if you think you are related to me: Please send me an email at

In 2007 I got some visitors from USA: Four people from Minnesota in the USA, with Norwegian ancestors. They had been searching the net for a “Ole Rosten” from the 1850-s from the farm Rosten in Gudbrandsdalen. My ancestors come from there.  They stayed at my parents house at Otta for a week end: And we went to different parts of the Gudbrandsdalen valley: Including the Rosten farms area. It was a nice week end: And we learnt a lot. Both from Norway and the USA.  It was Chuck (originally from the Rostløkken in Rosten) and his wife Carma; with Hal og Pam.

On the image above we are eating dinner (Rømmegrøt med spekemat) at Jetta in Dovre.

More of the visit on http://www.olesverden.com/2007/08/12/amerika-besok/ (text in Norwegian only).

Here’s a little info about Otta

Otta is a small city in Gudbrandsdalen. The city is in the Sel municipality ( Sel kommune) the county of Oppland (Oppland fylke) in Norway. It’s the only city in Gudbrandsdalen except Lillehammer (Winter Olympic city in 1994..). Otta became a city on August 26. august 2000.

Otta is the Administrative centre in Sel municipality. 6088 people live there (2004). The Area of Sel municipality: 905 km². Sel is one of the more scenic and historically significant areas of the Gudbrandsdal. A large concentration of Norway’s heritage-listed farms is located in Heidal in Sel municipality (Heidal became part of Sel municipality in 1965). Otta is named after the Otta river and lies at the point where the Otta River joins the Gudbrandsdalslågen from the west. Otta is 288 meters above the sea level, in the valley of Gudbrandsdalen. Otta is next to mountains, and national parks, like Jotunheimen and Rondane.

From Wikipedia:
The Gudbrandsdalen is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian fylke of Oppland. The valley is oriented in north-westerly direction from Lillehammer at the Lake Mjøsa, extending 230 km toward Romsdal. The large river Gudbrandsdalslågen flows through the valley, starting from Lesjaskogsvatnet and ending in lake Mjøsa. Gudbrandsdalen is shaped by the recent ice age and rivers from the present glacial areas in Jotunheimen and Dovre.

Links:
www.Gudbrandsdalen.no
www.sel.kommune.no
www.otta2000.com
www.visitrondane.com

Våknet til en veldig kald dag er på Otta. Nå, midt på dagen, er det fremdeles minus 17 grader. Brrr…

Akkurat nå er jeg hjemme på juleferie på Otta, hos foreldrene mine. Har spist god mat (både råkåfisk, ribbe og pinnekjøtt). Ute i den gamle hest-vogna foran stabburet har vi satt opp en liten kar i nissedrakt, he he

Har i dag skiftet software for min hjemmeside fra b2evolution til Geeklog. Dette fordi jeg de siste månedene har vært plaget av mye spam fra referanser. Forhåpentligvis blir det mindre nå )