<head id="NEST_Aulno.h1">Aulestad</head><head id="NEST_Aul_074en.h1">Aulestad.</head>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s1">En junikveld i 1875 kom dikteren Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson med hele sin familie til Aulestad.</s><s id="NEST_Aul_074en.s1">The author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and his family arrived at Aulestad one evening in June, 1875.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s2">Året før hadde Bjørnson, som da oppholdt seg i Italia, fått vite av vennene sine på folkehøyskolen Vonheim, like ved Aulestad, at gården var til salgs.</s><s id="NEST_Aul_074en.s2">Bjørnson, who at the time was staying in Italy, was a year earlier told by his friends at Vonheim, a folk high school nearby Aulestad, that the farm was for sale.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_074en.s3">A folk high school is a college without any formal education and no exams.</s>
<s id="NEST_Aulno.s3">Etter nøye overveielse med argumenter for og imot og en intens lyst til å erverve Aulestad, kjøpte Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson gården for 16.000 Spd.</s><s id="NEST_Aul_074en.s4">Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson had a strong desire to acquire Aulestad, and after thorough consideration he bought the farm for 16 000 spesidaler.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_074en.s5">Spesidaler was the currency unit used in Norway from 1560 to 1875.</s> <s id="NEST_Aul_074en.s6">In today