<head id="NEST_Aulno.h1">Aulestad</head> <head id="NEST_Aul_073en.h1">Aulestad</head>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s1">En junikveld i 1875 kom dikteren Bj�rnstjerne Bj�rnson med hele sin familie til Aulestad.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s1">One June evening in 1875, the Norwegian poet Bj�rnstjerne Bj�rnson arrived, along with his entire family, to Aulestad, a country estate not far from Lillehammer (known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics).</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s2">�ret f�r hadde Bj�rnson, som da oppholdt seg i Italia, f�tt vite av vennene sine p� folkeh�yskolen Vonheim, like ved Aulestad, at g�rden var til salgs.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s2">The year before, while Bj�rnson was staying in Italy, he found out from some friends from his folk high-school called Vonheim, not far from Aulestad, that the farm was put out for sale.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s3">Etter n�ye overveielse med argumenter for og imot og en intens lyst til � erverve Aulestad, kj�pte Bj�rnstjerne Bj�rnson g�rden for 16.000 Spd.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s3">After careful consideration and arguments that made him leaning in both directions, and a strong desire to acqire Aulestad, he decided to buy it for 16 000 Spd. (speciedaler; the currency in Norway at that time).</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s4">Aulestad som etter navnet � d�mme m� skrive seg fra vikingtiden, er en god g�rd p� ialt omkring 2.000 m�l.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s4">Aulestad, which judging by its name has its roots from the Viking period, is a good farm of about 2000 m�l.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s5">Av dette var 150 m�l dyrket i 1874, resten var utmark og ypperlig skog.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s5">150 m�l out of the 2000 had already been cultivated, the rest of it outlying fields and first-rate woods.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s6">Det framg�r av dikterens egen beskrivelse av g�rden at han hadde store planer med sin g�rd, jord ble dyrket og stein kj�rt vekk.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s6">In the poets own descriptions of the farm, he writes about what plans he had for it.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s7">The soil was tilled and rocks were taken away.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s7">Uthusene ble reparert, senere etter hvert ombygd.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s8">The outhouses were fixed and later also rebuilt.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s8">Et nytt stabbur, tegnet av Bj�rnson selv, inspirert av bygninger p� g�rder i s�rligere egne, fikk plassen etter det gamle.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s9">A new storehouse (on pillars), drawn by Bj�rnson himself and inspired by buildings on farms that could be found in southern parts of the country, replaced the old one.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s9">Bj�rnson hadde ogs� allerede f�r han kom hjem, hatt planer om en ny hovedbygning, som skulle ligge nede i skogen.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s10">Bj�rnson had even before he returned home thought about building a new main building which was to lie in the woods.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s10">Den svenske arkitekt Gegerfelt laget tegninger i gammel-nordisk stil med dragehoder og forsiringer etter tidens smak.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s11">The Swedish architect Gegerfelt made some sketches in ancient Nordic style with dragon heads and decorations commonly used at that time.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s11">Heldigvis tillot �konomien aldri at det ble bygd.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s12">Fortunately, because of bad economy it never got built.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s12">F�r familien kom til Aulestad, hadde g�rden ogs� en tid v�rt skyss-stasjon.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s13">Before the family came to Aulestad, the farm had been a posting station.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s13">I den tiden hadde forresten Bj�rnson overnattet der en gang, en opplevelse Bj�rnson husket i lyse farger, mens fru Karoline mintes det atskillig dystrere.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s14">Bj�rnson had actually spent the night there once, during those days, an experience he remembered as being great though his wife Karoline remembered it as something quite worse.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s14">Hovedbygningen p� Aulestad best�r egentlig av to bygninger av den typen en kan studere bl.a. p� Maihaugen.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s15">The main building at Aulestad is actually a compound of two houses, the kind you can se for example in Maihaugen, an outdoors museum in Lillehammer where you can look at old Norwegian buildings and farmyards.</s>

<s id="NEST_Aulno.s15">Disse to bygningene ble tidlig p� 1800-tallet satt inntil hverandre under felles tak

<head id="NEST_Aulno.h1">Aulestad</head>	<head id="NEST_Aul_073en.h1">Aulestad</head>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s1">En junikveld i 1875 kom dikteren Bj�rnstjerne Bj�rnson med hele sin familie til Aulestad.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s1">One June evening in 1875, the Norwegian poet Bj�rnstjerne Bj�rnson arrived, along with his entire family, to Aulestad, a country estate not far from Lillehammer (known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics).</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s2">�ret f�r hadde Bj�rnson, som da oppholdt seg i Italia, f�tt vite av vennene sine p� folkeh�yskolen Vonheim, like ved Aulestad, at g�rden var til salgs.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s2">The year before, while Bj�rnson was staying in Italy, he found out from some friends from his folk high-school called Vonheim, not far from Aulestad, that the farm was put out for sale.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s3">Etter n�ye overveielse med argumenter for og imot og en intens lyst til � erverve Aulestad, kj�pte Bj�rnstjerne Bj�rnson g�rden for 16.000 Spd.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s3">After careful consideration and arguments that made him leaning in both directions, and a strong desire to acqire Aulestad, he decided to buy it for 16 000 Spd. (speciedaler; the currency in Norway at that time).</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s4">Aulestad som etter navnet � d�mme m� skrive seg fra vikingtiden, er en god g�rd p� ialt omkring 2.000 m�l.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s4">Aulestad, which judging by its name has its roots from the Viking period, is a good farm of about 2000 m�l.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s5">Av dette var 150 m�l dyrket i 1874, resten var utmark og ypperlig skog.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s5">150 m�l out of the 2000 had already been cultivated, the rest of it outlying fields and first-rate woods.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s6">Det framg�r av dikterens egen beskrivelse av g�rden at han hadde store planer med sin g�rd, jord ble dyrket og stein kj�rt vekk.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s6">In the poets own descriptions of the farm, he writes about what plans he had for it.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s7">The soil was tilled and rocks were taken away.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s7">Uthusene ble reparert, senere etter hvert ombygd.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s8">The outhouses were fixed and later also rebuilt.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s8">Et nytt stabbur, tegnet av Bj�rnson selv, inspirert av bygninger p� g�rder i s�rligere egne, fikk plassen etter det gamle.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s9">A new storehouse (on pillars), drawn by Bj�rnson himself and inspired by buildings on farms that could be found in southern parts of the country, replaced the old one.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s9">Bj�rnson hadde ogs� allerede f�r han kom hjem, hatt planer om en ny hovedbygning, som skulle ligge nede i skogen.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s10">Bj�rnson had even before he returned home thought about building a new main building which was to lie in the woods.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s10">Den svenske arkitekt Gegerfelt laget tegninger i gammel-nordisk stil med dragehoder og forsiringer etter tidens smak.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s11">The Swedish architect Gegerfelt made some sketches in ancient Nordic style with dragon heads and decorations commonly used at that time.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s11">Heldigvis tillot �konomien aldri at det ble bygd.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s12">Fortunately, because of bad economy it never got built.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s12">F�r familien kom til Aulestad, hadde g�rden ogs� en tid v�rt skyss-stasjon.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s13">Before the family came to Aulestad, the farm had been a posting station.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s13">I den tiden hadde forresten Bj�rnson overnattet der en gang, en opplevelse Bj�rnson husket i lyse farger, mens fru Karoline mintes det atskillig dystrere.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s14">Bj�rnson had actually spent the night there once, during those days, an experience he remembered as being great though his wife Karoline remembered it as something quite worse.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s14">Hovedbygningen p� Aulestad best�r egentlig av to bygninger av den typen en kan studere bl.a. p� Maihaugen.</s>	<s id="NEST_Aul_073en.s15">The main building at Aulestad is actually a compound of two houses, the kind you can se for example in Maihaugen, an outdoors museum in Lillehammer where you can look at old Norwegian buildings and farmyards.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s15">Disse to bygningene ble tidlig p� 1800-tallet satt inntil hverandre under felles tak