Nordland families
Nordland families (
Characteristics
Some basic characteristics of a Nordland family are that they were socially established since the centuries before 1800, that they lived on the countryside, where they had typical burgher culture and professions, that they married each other, that they bore permanent family names, something that very few people had (ordinary people used
Many Nordland families are, in some cases extensively, described in written pieces especially of the 18th and the 19th century. These families' culture, among other their way of being, society life, and dances, was different from that of ordinary people.
It is said that all Nordland families may be traced back to the
To Nordland families belong many nationally prominent persons, among others trader Erasmus B.K. Zahl (Knut Hamsun's Mack) of the Zahl family, cabinet minister Sofus A.B. Arctander of the Arctander family, and cabinet minister Jakob M. Schøning of the Schøning family.
History
The concept is of old days. It is frequently used in historical and genealogical literature of the 20th century. Some years after the publication of genealogist