<head id="NEST_Aulno.h1">Aulestad</head><head id="NEST_Aul_098en.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_098en.s1">One night in June, 1875, the poet Bjornstjerne Bjornson arrived together with his family at Aulestad, a farm in Oppland prefecture in eastern Norway.</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_098en.s2">The year before Bjornson, who had been staying abroad in Italy, had heard from his friends at Vonheim folk high school (folk high school being a form school focusing at cultural specific subjects, being studied at college level), which is situated near Aulestad, that the farm was up for sale.</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_098en.s3">After careful consideration with arguments for and against, together with intense desire to obtain Aulestad, Bjornstjerne Bjornson bought the farm for 16.ooo spesidals (spesidals being a part of the old currency used in Norway from 1560 to 1875, with one spesidal being roughly forty US dollars in today