The video is a full-length recording of an hour-long presentation at the Boston 2026 World Exposition of Philately. The Telemark postal district is situated west of Oslo, and the coast extends from Skien on the north to Kragero on the southwest. This presentation discusses postal history of this region up through the end of the 19th century. The information will be of most interest to serious philatelists or to others interested in Scandinavian history.
One item will also be of interest to anyone who has a relative or friend whose last name is Odegaard. When the Black Plague arrived in Norway in 1349, approximately 2/3 of the population died. Some of those who survived moved to the abandoned farms. "Odegaard" is Norwegian for "abandoned farm." You learn something every day.
I assume a simple mistype, but 1349, not 1340.
ReplyDeleteI think there's a typo in the text for this one -- do you mean 1350 instead of 1340? I suspect the plague in Norway was penecontemporaneous with the disease in the rest of Europe.
ReplyDeleteIt was a typo. I misread the 9 in my handwritten notes as a zero. Fixed. Thank you for the proofreading.
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