Arnljot Eggen, norwegian writer, nephew of abovestanding violinist Amund Eggen and brother of Einar the well read. See uncle Arnljots poems first page nazi press at Volapuk pages 52 and 93, his pre-war articles in norwegian fascist newspaper "Tidens tegn" (Times token) 175,178
Arnljot Eggen was born 1923 in Tolga, the stronghold of norwegian fascism, and in his mid-fifties became an ardent communist to cover that up. Before his selfbolshevisation known as "the barren poet", after as the spartan revolutionary crack-poet permanently warning literarary circles against his sinister nephew Eystein Eggen the younger. ("Sinister" is "skummel" in norwegian, see for yourself uncles warnings against sinister Eystein at Volapuk Cultural Forum, page 44 ). Arnljot Eggen got his best review in 1967 by his youthfriend poet Paal Brekke ("AE doesn't deserve to stand permanent ly in the shadow of other poets" ).
. Here uncle Arnljot reads at the opening of "The Eggen cottage" at Vingelen Church- and Schoolmuseum, that is to say the same cottage his father is sittting before at the photo Eystein Eggen the older in 1952 sent to EE the younger ( scroll to side top ). Eystein Eggen the younger didn't know about the inauguraution at all, though he was the first actually to have lived in "the Eggen cottage", see Volapuk Cultural Forum, page 64 and 65
Jo Eggen, norwegian writer. Born 1952 in a mental home, where to he has often returned. After beeing discharged as a teenager, he was trained by uncle Arnljot and aunt Tordis to be a good communist and on his watch for hs sinister cousin Eystein the younger. Doormat and beer-fetcher for the ruling Eggen family suppressors of for a generation. Got two reviews for his first two puzzling leaflets, both reviews by the family friend poet Jan Erik Vold, then he was cleared and ready to serve in occupied Eggen cottage.
Jo Eggen claims his father as a major (officer) and leader of Norwegian intelligence during the war. His father was an elementary school-teacher in the same remote mountain valleys where his abovestanding granduncle Amund worked and walked.. Not a single book on norwegian war time intelligence mentions the name of Jo Eggen's father but the book on resistance history from eggens' part of the fatherland has several pages on his grandfather as a registered nazi.
The only war hero, if not to say soldier, in the eggen family since the times of the Duke of Marlborough, was Eystein Eggens father Egil Eggen. Here to the left with his mother and younger brother, Oddmund, father of Jo, Audun and Espen. If you had survived Gratangen 1940 in Norway, you automatically got your war pension, no questions asked. Therefore, from a relatively young age, Oddmund called his older brother "The Hero from Gratangen".
And below is his son Eystein Eggen the younger. Three years of age. As said by the old BBC-reporter and writer of some fifty odd books Albert Henrik Mohn in Mohns broadcast review of Eystein Eggens autobiographical "The Boy from Gimle" ( review in extenso on Volapuk culture page 5):
"In popular opinion the son (EE) should have become environmental loaded scum. Instead he is a fine-feeling, deep-ploughing human beeing, a glittering master of style, a courageous storyteller who has given us one of the most thoughtgiving books of the year."
Three modern eggenprofiles: Top left Eystein Eggen the younger, right his cousin Espen Eggen, and beneath them their uncle Arnljot "the Hyaena" Eggen.
Leading newspaper "Aftenposten" on Eystein Eggen the younger 1999:
"He is among the uttermost few who creates literature of great force and originality in our Contemporary-Norway".
Governmental grant holder Eystein back where it all began.
"Symbol of an entire generation" (norwegian parliament, the Storthing).
Too strong even for the maddest family and most cowardly cultural localbureaucracy, giving heed to red wine communist terror.
Eggenstua, the "Eggen cottage", from the year 1697, where Eystein Eggen the younger was the first to actually live after its beeing restored in 1943, as carved into roof beam.
Torgrim Eggen, born 1958, norwegian writer. Son of Tordis Vigerust and Einar Eggen. "One of the leading contemporary novelists in Norway," according to Torgrim Eggens home page. Scroll down for leading newspaper Aftenposten on his cousin Eystein.
Torgrim is 90% Amble and 10% Eggen, therefore constantly mixing the two to hide his own lunatics, a strategy inherited from his mother. Has for some fifteen years proclaimed himself Norway's ultimate war writer.
Cousin Torgrim on his way to the hall of fame, headed by his mother bearing his poet's rose wrapped in cellophane, a common sight at last decade's fairs, see also Volapuk Culture pages 100, 101, 102 103 and 104.
Torgrims war claim is almost as good as his writer cousin Jo Eggen . He claims that his maternal uncle midsummer 1944 swam the russian flood Neva with a wounded comrade on his back.
For facsimile of contemporary interview with Torgrims swimming uncle, see Volapuk page 63. Here Torgrims uncle in his own words says that he really couldn't swim at all, and crawled the russian lake on an old log. Later he took his life. His sister used her bookworm husband to rewrite his chaotic notes to something more literary. Eggen: "I can surprise octogenarians with my war knowledge".
Egil Eggen, father of Eystein Eggen, as a young student of Germanistics in Oslo before the war.
To the left Ola O. Furuseth, before the war first lieutnant in the norwegian air force . He was from down south in the Østerdalen and a beloved in-law of the eggens. Picture of poster for 1936 elections with Ola F. heralding national sociialism , cf. 107. Furuseths grandfather had blaimed "hebrew speculants" for the fluctuating timber prices. His grandchild Ola was no exception to this family view, later succeeding his relative Egil Eggen, father of Eystein Eggen the younger, as editor of SS-Leitheft.
The writer Johan Falkberget (1979-1967) dressed at the old farmers from Hov in Ålen, where he lived all his life. Tougher than his fellow journalist Eystein Eggen in former days, he cunningly outmanouvered his youth friend in 1945, leaving the grocers sons like magpies looking for verbal dust and splinters of fame.
For Eystein Eggen the younger "year zero", when his weak but plasant uncle Einar Eggen astonished the village of Ålen, arrriving in 1954 with a dame full of half lunatic fantasies about originating from the old norse kings, with no sturdy farm to make it probable, whereas the famous Falkberget had written some fifty odd books about the old Hov people.
Son of the secret CIA chief director? No, this is doctor Eggen, born 1954, brother of above poet Jo Eggen, at the cottage inauguration "From the communists to the community". A few years after he was relieved from his psychiatric licence by the police. Former dr. Eggen was beside elementary school inspector Eva Eggen in Ålen one of the staunchest supporters of the stalinist family suppression.
His brother, the surgeon Espen Eggen (below) who doesn't share in the utter oedipal lunacy of his two older brothers Jo and Audun.
Espen modestly claims that his father was a resistance fighter in the valley of Østerdalen, which is only plain,ordinary noncence, cf. Jon Vegard Lunde The Resistance in Østerdalen, three volumes with some fifteen hundred pages, based on ten years' research.
Her ancestor, the mining director Leonard Christian Borchgrevink (1698-1772), for 35 years director of Røros mining, then Norway's biggest industrial complex. ( Copyright: Lars Geithe, who has made a very good site on Røros ).
Olaf Hov, after maternal uncle Lars the only normal male Eystein met during his stay in madhouse Eggen.
Humanity was the reason for his normality. Olaf understood that after a tremendous defeat, you couldn't lay the blame on the NS-children, especially if you, like family Eggen, had been NS yourself.
Olaf's two daughters both married US Army officers.
The norwegian chief editor who had Hitler's portrait with dedication in silver frame on his desk. Editor Johan Woll in the virulent antisemitic "Østerdølen" always gave the Eggen family up in Vingelen and Ålen a good coverage, see below and Volapuk page 44 ,60, 62, 64, 86 and 65 , the last with a presentation of the paramilitary "hird" in Hedmark, which had Woll as its press chief. (Wartime picture).
Woll had long arcive studies in Germany on his back, although he also was a farmer down in Brandval. His political thriller "Castle of the Witch" was a favorite among the bright eggen lads.
General Werner Christie (1917-2004 ). He was in his youth the fighter ace among the norwegian pilots in the RAF during the war. In 1993 he reviewed Eystein Eggens autobigraphical bokk "The Boy from Gimle" in Aftenposten, Norway's leading newspaper, and Officers magazine ( see Volapuk page 1 and 13).
General's conclusion:
" Eystein Eggen has given us an honest, valuable and awakening book, which concerns everyone."
"The Hirdman" 1944:
Interviewer: "But how did you get over? We've heard that you can't swim? Torgrims uncle (picture middle ): " Right so. But I got hold of an old fence pole".
Sigmund Vigerust comitted suicude in 1969. Twenty years later his sister Tordis whipped her husband Einar into writing a heroic and highly literary manus based on Sigmunds chaotic notes. The manus was published in year 2000 as the voice of a young genius from beyond, but real rason was burning envy against Eysteins Eggens classic book "The Boy from Gimle".
Her mother, Sofia Hov (1873-1953)
Eystein Eggens handwriting ten years old in 1954. Letter oct. 24 1954: "Einar (the above uncle) has got a little tubercolosis and has been sent to a sanatorium in Hakkadalen (Glitne)."
It was not the first time. It was weird. Einar with a woman. Almost unbelievable. Therefore the hoax fostering young Eystein. As usual in defeated fascist families: the older feel sorry for themselves and envy the younger.
Two rotten petty crimnlas. That was Eysteins impression in 1957 when he collected the above painted bowl.
The Boy from Gimle, Eystein Eggens autobiography, acclaimed by press, police and parliament. Norwegian edition. Eystein six months old between his parents Liv and Egil Eggen
School drawing 1951 by Eystein Eggen, with his seven years already envied by degenerate eggens
And his son, old Embret, (1873-1953) ,grandfathers big brother, called "the bass over all basses", and "that was culture", the old folks of Vingelen said, they heard old boss Embret in duet with Eystein Eggens tenor, the two brother's singing their favorite about the hilly wind: "And then you come, my heart to comfort, you mountain-Norway's innermost timeupheavally voice".
Eystein Eggen at school. Eystein got a top note scribbled with his teacher's hand over last page of his composition on the Westernmovie "The sheriff", with its haunting refrain "Do not forsake me, oh my darling, on this our wedding day." Cf. 190
"The most candid in print", writes professor Einar Haugen, Universities of Wisconsin and Harvard, in his review of Eggens autobiograhy "The Boy from Gimle"
Rosepainted bowl stolen from Eysteins broken home by his aunt Tordis Vigerust and his uncle the half invalid bookworm Einar Eggen in 1957. Recovered together with the kitchen table by Eystein, who brought them to the old german barrack where he lived with his mother, uncle and aunt having taken the flat too. At that time it was impossibe to get a flat in the strictly regulated norwegian housing market for two 26 year old students from out of town, without child and with no queuenumber in the housing association. They used Eystein. In 58 they even discussed if they should call their first born after him.
Eystein Eggen 22 years of age.
Eggens from Vingelen 1890, later one of the most well known fascist familes of Østerdalen.
The summer I met my aunt, the witch.
Eystein Eggen the younger eleven years of age. Standing on the plain of Hov, realizing that after many family irregulations, here came the biggest challenge: his new in-law aunt, the snobbish social curator Tordis Vigerust , trying to hide her own nazicrazy relatives (Amble, 51, not the hardy Vigerust farmers from Dovre,Tordis' maternal grandfather beeing a spooky parson, aloof from the simple peasants ( as he himself once was) . Aunt Tordis tried to hide her own lunatics behind the eggen genius, which then of course must be of pure denazified spirit, the old malt beeing placed with the old folks at Hov.
With eggen-genius forward to new social greatness and no more four insanes per generation, she thought. Eystein thwarted her dreams of normal kids of her own. Therefore Tordis hated him at first sight and envying his good looks and sturdy soul.
The plain of Hov, with Løberg grove, Eggens grocery and Per Hov in the background.
On Arnljot Eggens birthday in 1993 "Whole the leftist half", mostly scions of Oslos upper class, gathered togethet by Eysteins cousin the local school inspector Eva Eggen, were celebrating the marxist champion. Then Norways leading newspaper, Aftenposten, sailed down th slopes, Eystein front page. "Whitefaced and speechless", said another cousin, poet Jo Eggen afterwards about his uncles present, Gunnar Eggen and Arnljot Eggen. The former fraternized with the germans, the latter wrote poems in the nazi press. Now Eystein hit back in the midst of their communist cover operation.
Critic Jahn Thon hailed uncle Arnljot as "the norse Eggen" in paper "Class struggle", and was later vehemently attacked in public for persecuting Eystein Eggen the younger.
"We discussed you more than the jubilant," left wing writer Espen Haavardsholm, daughterson of famous war hero captain Martin Linge recalled, always defending Eystein against Arnljot Eggens slanderings "I didn't hear a thing," reminscensed publisher Audun Heskestad, selling the only leaflet by AE ever read by norwegian working class, with its idealized drawing of young Eystein (see above).
Tordis Vigerust took her forty year old son, writer Torgrim Eggen , by the hand and has since been wandering around with him, announcing true greatness acoming. Photos of high school teach Thon and Ålen old stave church at Volapuk page 45. The stave church stood hundred meters to the left of the present churcuyard.
For more on old class struggle in Ålen , cradle of norwegian Labour, and grocer Eggens part, see 80,81,84,88,89,91,92
His in-law and successor as editor of SS-Leitheft, SS-Obersturmführer Ola Furuseth
"I want a farm with artists, SS-men and leaders!""
Another Eggen relative for chrismas 1943 in "Østerdølens" special issue: SS-Untersturmführer Ola Furuseth, who 1937 participated in the burglary into Leo Trotskys house at Hønefoss and later succeeded Egil Eggen as norwegian editor of SS-Leitheft. Here obituary for Per Imerslund, "the aryan idol", another right-wing soulmate. Picture of Ola Furuseth in the uniform of a SS-Obersturmführer (captain) at Volapuk, page 61, of Imerslund page 62
Aforesaid mounted constable Olaf Hov. Two daughtes, married to US officers. Carried together with Eystein the younger the coffin from the church to Ålen old churchyard ( above) when Eysteins mother died in 1981. No Eggens were present at the funeral.
Eystein Eggen at the age of 14 in 1958. The persons to the left are Eysteins youngest uncle, the weakling ( only one lung for his 1,66 centimeters), Einar Eggen and his wife Tordis Vigerust from another embittered nazi-family. Trying to take even more advantage of the breaking of Eystein's home. At first they wouldn't help, but then politicians from the powerful Labour party intervened. on behalf of six-footer Eystein, who then became a more interesting humanitarian subject, family envy nothwithstanding.
Uncle and aunt got a new flat at Grorud , today a main area for the norwegian justice and police. Young Eystein and his mother continued to live in the old german barracks. The gifted eggens were afraid of Eysteins mother, she had seen them during the war. The stengun scared them. See public documents on Volapuk, page 44,46,46, and 125.
Below uncle and aunt are coming 1958 to the yard of the elite state colllege to look for some more. Device: "Him we shall help forward!" As the creature below, uncle Einar, later so often said: "I've tried to make a human being out of Eystein".
The encouraging letter that went with the photo. "Then I was 68 and will soon be as old as Methusalem" ( grandfather on of his last birthday ).
The Skogstad family historian, Eystein Eggens grandfather Eystein Eggen the older (1886-1973). Skogstad is the oldest sheriff family of Norway. Photo sent to his grandson after Eystein's home broke and his mother had been to hospital in 1952. The only good photo of EE the older. When grandfather died 21 years later he scribbled with his own hand across his testament: "EYSTEIN SHALL HAVE, TOO."
Give me that old time religion, grandfather Eggen was always yearning for the return of oldtime toughness, "toet" as he called it in his poems.For documentation on him beeing regarded as a registered nazi, cf. 84 . Facsimile of grandfathers recist war-time novel "The reindeer hunter and the knight's beautiful daughter", 94, from his 70. birthday, page 95 . For his review of war-time skogstadbook, see page 83 .Eystein Eggen the older laid the foundation for the Skogstad family history. Rejoices in his bardly heaven over the wedding between Unni and Eystein.(Copyright Eystein Eggen the younger).
Confirmation of the 1943 nazi publishing of Eystein Eggen the olders history work "Vingelen, saga tales from way back home", and a trip to the wedding of his oldest son, Egil, father of E.Eggen the younger, where grandfather got aquainted with SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Leib. For bridal photo with the yellow chrysantemums from Leib, and Leib himself in full uniform, see Volapuk, page 80
Enthousiastic 1942 greetings from the NS-chief of Vingelen, Engebret Eggen, a nephew of Eystein Eggen the older. "Our best wishes for the wedding day and your life together".
Eystein Eggen the older's children said that the nazi authorities did'nt know about their fathers histyory and that the book wasn''t mentioned in the nazi press.The communist poet Arnljot Eggen (one lung, too) wrote a treatise defending this view, hailed by the halfperverted family as counter book to EE younger's "The Boy from Gimle".
Here is the picture of farm Eggen in Vingelen that stood with long excerpts of the book in Chrismas number 1943 of "Østerdølen", probably the most nazified newsapaper in Norway. In 1939 Editor-in-chief Johan Woll had got Adolf Hitlers portrait in silver frame with a personal inscription from from the german Führer, and now he promoted Eggen as a nordic ideal in his paper.
When EE younger as a young research scholar from University of Oslo visited Eggen in 1971, the walls of the summer cottage (down right ) were still dominated by sun crosses in gold and red and a big family tree created by Eystein Eggen the older, underneath which old nazi chieftain Engebret freely talked about suppressed matters. For more photos of Eggen, Vingelen and the mountainous countryside, see Volapuk, page 59, 85
Organist Amund Eggen, older brother of Eystein Eggen the older. Composer of a vanished musical about the mythical Olav Liljekrans. Organ player and dairy man in the inner mountain valleys, where he walked on foot to spare the railway ticket.
Eggen christmas 1943:
When "Vingelen" 1943 lay under the tree together with editor Wolls latest nazi novel ( since 1934 editor Woll had been a convinced nazi ), and nazipaper "Østerdølen" with the names of all the bright eggen-lads lay on the table, Eystein Eggen the older no longer lived at his birth-place Vingelen. He had defended a dangerous local eccentric wanted by the State police, and had himself been hunted north and down in Ålen in South-Trøndelag county, where his store and gasoline store are at the road junction by river bend.. There he also was a taxi driver, transporting the photographer Schrøder around the slopes when Scrøder in 1936 took the beneath photo for the new history book on the hamlet of Ålen , which much inspired grandfather's own work.
Grandfathers old lorry, in 1931 hauling grocer, wife and six kids down in Ålen, grocer's maniac friend later barricading himself with rifle and dynamite on his summer farm up in Vingelen. The story hit the front page of "Tidens Tegn", Norway's second biggest newspaper, see facsimile at Volapuk page 124
The plain at the valley's bottom is still called the plain of Hov. There the hovpeople lived. There student Egil Eggen met the mother of Eystein Eggen the younger. The Hov people were grandfathers main customers, beeing fifty/fifty NS and Labour. The nazi half was the main clientel for E.Eggens grocery. The teachers of the grocers gifted sons were from the Hov family. A german plane stroke the valley bottom. The youngest, 11 year old Einar Eggen, became frightened and was evacuated to his teacher at Hovli. For more pictures from Ålen, se Volapuk page 48, 49, 53, 54, 56 and 57
The Hov plain fifty years later, around 1980. Eggen's grocery has been completly ousted by social democratic Labour cooperation ( store and factory by the river on the left ), the remaining eggens importing communist student poets to deny real political reason, and later on going into local politics to fight down the centennial Labour supremacy in the elections of 2007.
Grocer Eggens next neighbour, granduncle of Eystein Eggen the younger, was the mountain farmer Per Hov, who lived across the road from "Store E. Eggen" Inteviewed 1932 as "the saga sphinx" by his good neighbour and later in-law EE the older, whose writing itch not even the banned penmans exile could stop. "Løberg-lunden" is "grove Barre" in EE the youngers historical novel "Hov". Per Hov was vice mayor for NS during the war, Labour mayor continuing in office.
Main point is: In 1945 the gocer verbally stabbed his dagger into his neighbour's back, to save his own skin, see Volapuk page 52. Therefore grandfather Eggen also must turn away from his good neighbours, the aristocratic hovpeople, with some identity consequences for his oldest grandchild, Eystein Eggen the younger, see family pictures om page 54
The interviewed Per Hov, 90 years of age. Next door neighbour to grocer Eystein Eggen the older. Interview : Still he takes the floursacks and slings them to the ceiling. "You are strong, you" ( says grandfather Eggen). He (Per) makes an averting gesture: "No, now I'm no good, but I should have been twenty-four again!"
Eystein Eggen the youngers maternal stock. They said in Ålen that the grocer was married to the grandchild of Bergsvein Hov (picture), so often went Eystein Eggen the older off in the warm autumn evenings in the hard thirties, but when the grocer's youngest literary epileptic after the war jumped on Bergsveins grandchild, the grandchild looked down at the epileptic and said: "Now, Einar Eggen, I do think that you have undertaken a task a little too big for you".
"You don't tear your family down, you restore it", Bergsveins grandchild said to Eystein after having read "The Boy from Gimle". (Picture of Bergsveins grandchild at Volapuk page 81
The Hov folks. Prime dwellers of the plain since time immemorial. The main customers of grocer Eggen. Here gathered in 1928 at the homestead of the mother of Eystein the younger, Liv ("life"), number two from the left, front row. Liv is up late, but sitting between her two cousins, the revolutionary Labour man with pipe in his mouth and Anders with his bow-tie, who somewhat later in the social struggle shouted "Long live Franco!" at the Peoples house, which was not alltogether too popular, the Hov folks also having the Labour mayor in this area strongest of all for this party, dominating norwegian policy throughout the century.
In Ålen Labour got the majority, in 1907, as first place in Norway, and still has.Cf 80 (Class struggle 1936), 84,86, 87,88,89,91,92,93,94,95
This was the happy world which the gifted Eggen youngsters later on must deny in their long castling , transferring their own racist family nazism onto the good people of Hov and their tradtional down-to-earth pro german conservatism, the young eggengeniuses beeing smitten by their father's gallopping anxiety for ostracism from the norwegian literary establishment, and downtrodden by their in-laws, despising their weakness but hiding behind their clever semantics. Pictures of the older generations Hov, grandfathers and fathers, at Volapuk page 57
Eystein Eggen the youngers mother, Liv Eggen, 1938. In Ålen she was called "Miss mannered", but in 45 she became a victim of panick-stricken and degenerate Eggens and later on of her jealous sister-in law, Tordis Vigerust, the witch. They denounced her for beeing some sort of evil spirit, true reason was that she had witnessed grocer's sons as wartime fascist youth.
Liv Eggen meant to sew in "Eggenstua" ( picture at lowest page bottom) in defeat's long winter nights, but mad Eggens took her roll of cloth. Later they took her flat too, but Liv Eggen used her savings to get a new one. More pictures of Liv at Volapuk page 55 and 46, on 101 her handwriting from her diary and young Eysteins drawing of her.
Her brother.The strongman of the Hov folks, Lars, maternal uncle of Eystein Eggen the younger. Heart of gold and fist of steel. Strongest man in lower Ålen, like his uncle Per Hov before him. Chairman of the schoolboard during the war. The first to emphasize the litterary talents of Einar Eggen, as documented in the NS press. Lars' son was the only lad in Ålen donning the youngnazis dark blue uniform, he was Einars best friend.
The vigerusts are coming! Amidst a wardowntrodden eggenfamily they came with aspirations to arise from the nazi ashes on the wings of the eggen genius! Here are, from left, Ola Vigerust, (1885-1968) young gentleman farmer from Dovre, father in law of below Einar Eggen. To Ola's right his elder brother, the NS mayor of Dovre.
"Mad women there have been at all times", says Ole Wilhelm Klüwer , spokesman for the NS-children, "but the real problem is when there are no men to stop them." Grocer's youngest son, the learned half-invalid Einar Eggen (1929-1990 ) was in no way the man to stop his ambitious wife Tordis Vigerust. First in the tribulations getting a flat in Oslo with young Eystein as a lever (scroll to side top ), later on in her talking torrent of jealous transmission, in her mid-life justified by her joining the youngcommunists together with in-law, fifty-year old writer Arnljot Eggen.
Anna Sveberg Eggen. Mother of below Jo, Audun and Espen Eggen. Anna was the second Eggen daughter in law who right after the war went off her rocker. When her husband, the alleged "CIA-chef" died in 1987, Tordis Vigerust took command of Anna, too, thus strengthening the family communist cover operation.
In her youth aunt Tordis coveted Anna's later husband. He was too clever, Tordis Vigerust marrying his younger brother Einar. It was quite a stir in the hamlet of Ålen when Einar in 1954 arrived with dame.When Anna's oldest son spring 2002 filled fifty, Anna wasn't there, her role as usual been taken over by Tordis Vigerust and Arnljot Eggen. Three years later old Anna got a price for folding up milk cartons.
High school teach Oddmund Eggen (1918-1987) waltzing with the brow at a pupils gathering.. "The little, thin man" ( History of Eidsvoll high school). Most of grocer's sons, the gifted Eggen lads, were shorter than Eystein's mother with her 1,68
Eggen was a settler's farm, a project much hailed by the nazis, see Volapuk page 107. Below the man who built the above farm with his two bare hands. Embret Eggen, father of Eystein the older .Light blond, blue eyes, tremendeous physique and short temper. Eggens before talent got out of hand.
Like some sort of blond nuclear bomb exploding with only splinterings of manhood left, such became the tale of the modern eggens.
Grandfather's cousin, sergeant Jørgen Øian, nazi mayor of neighbouring Os. Father of the well known piano player Johan Øian, cf 85
Eggen is the fascist branch of the old sheriff family Skogstad, splitting off around 1750. Whereas Einar Skogstad/Woodstead was a tank- driver in Normandy 1944, and his nephew Arthur lies in the National memorial cemetry of Arizona, Eggen was quite the oppsite. The present chief of clan Eggen, Eystein Eggen the younger, therefore has mixed feelings, his mother beeing used as a scapegoat for family fascism. Eystein is backed by norwegian government. He exposes family Eggen as a bunch of pathetic liars, not as progressive flower of literature.
The stem of the two familes, both Skogstad and Eggen, is from Eystein, year 1528, on the farm Ås in Vingelen, Tolga parish, northeast of Rondane, hence the family name Aus in the USA. For index side, click norwegian, for translations of Broch Nielsens interview "Forsoningen", english, deutsch, francais or italiano, per favore
Unni Friis Skogstad and Eystein Eggen, (picture below ) ,Govenrmental grant holder and the head of quality at ife. Distant cousins, close soulmates, married and reconcilated.
Eystein Eggen at the age of 16. Family publication. To the left a lookalike of his uncle, norwegian writer and fake communist Arnljot Eggen. The elder family fascist were so envious of orphan Eystein, that they sold the drawing in public, presenting Eystein as young Arnljot, scroll down for story.
"Was my grandfather insane?" Eystein Eggen the younger once asced the old mounted police officer Olaf Hov, born 1907. "Not that I know of. Your maternal grandfather was a tall man, somewhat careless in his clothes. Who says so?" "Tordis Vigerust, widow of Einar Eggen." "When was she born?" "1930". "But your grandfather died in 1928, where was she from?" "Gudbrandsdsdalen". "That so."
Here is Lars' father, John Løberg (1868-1928) in the uniform of IR/12, South-Trøndelag infantry regiment, the oldest in Norway. The Løbergs were the tallest people in Ålen, with many american desecendants. The most popular family in Ålen Labour.
Egil Eggen, Eystein the youngers father, in the first batallion of the same regiment in 1939. Number two from right. Reported missing in the battle for Narvik april 1940, but returned in midsummer, when the groicer looking out of his windom quite unexpected.saw his vanished son walking the flat plain of Hov.
A typical "long Løberg", brandishing the Labour flag in the party's heydays in the 1950's. Six-feet Valmar Aspås lifts the banner as his ancestor lifted the ensign of Ålen company during the old wars with Sweden. The procession is passing through "the Løberg grove", heading for the plains of Hov. Grocer Eggens store is to the left just outside the picture, then the white house of baker Lorentzen, also from Tolga, and at the back the small grocers' nightmare: the big social-democratic cooperation-store, the Samvirkelaget. On such days, the hills echoing "Arise, ye workers of the world!", the grocer E.Eggen kept himself confined to his quarters, staring behind his curtians out at the procession, muttering: "Now, really, they are fanning the red rag again". Pictures of grandfather from this time of troubles, and his scintillating denials og beeing saved by the fascists, at Volapuk page 51 and 52
A new time was marching in the quiet norwegian hamlets, making Tolga the second largest stronghold for norwegian nazism. "Are you a national socialist? Then your heart beats stronger by the name of Tolga," as the NS-partyorgan "Free people" exclaimed front page ( facsimiles at Volapuk pages 64 and 65. ) Here the stormtroopers are marching just around the corner from farm Eggen, on their way to the yearly pary rally at farm Sætersgård, owned by an old poet friend of Eystein Eggen the older , the procession beeing headed by the red/gold flag of the suncross and the hird's black. with swords and suncross. Tolga july 1941. NS youth movement in Tolga, facsimiles at Volapuk page 78. For shipowner Klüwer's private hird photos, page 105, and for facsimile of virulent anti-semitic speech august 1944 by son of national bard Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 109
700 people gathered at Sætersgård july 1941. More than the entire population of Vingelen. Loud-speakers blaring "No ser eg atter slike fjell og dalar" and the other national romantic norwegian anthems from the hill slopes of the narrow valley. And no one could afterwards remember a thing, making superseding the killing fields of satanization for the next generation, as Eystein Eggen the younger said on prime-time norwegian television, being interviewed july 2000 as the first Eggen ever to return to Sætersgård, the Nuremberg of Norway.
The norwegian NS-leader Vidkun Quisling speaks from the old store house at Sætersgård. "Those guys really can organize", Free People hailed aforesaid Engebret Eggen and the other party leaders. Tolga july 1941, and next year the rally was even bigger, grandfather Eggen had been there already in 1932, when Quisling first spoke at Sætersgård. For more nazi documentation on the old Eggens, see Volapuk page 64 and 65 Eystein Eggen the older's literary gifted children, were all mentioned in the NS-paper Østerdølen for chrismas 1943.
Egil Eggen 1942. To him NS was a bit too much peasant. For more on the norwgian editor of SS-Leitheft and ghost-writer for general Wilhelm Rediess, click veteran page
Engebret Eggen (1901-1982), fascist organisator from his youth.
With his fathers, old bass Embrets terrible temper, farmer Engebret Eggen (took over in 1940) in no way would have made NS-chieftain in Tolga stronghold , got Vidkun Quisling twice up the valley and in 1943 in collaboration with the fascist presspublished his uncle's municipal history on glossy paper. Engebret was a thoroughly pleasant man, who in interviews 1971 with young research scholar EEII con substancially conrtibuted to this troubled part of our newer history.
Stenlund, "Stone grove", old Eggens store, where the store-keeper stood behind curtains every 1st of May, listening to "Arise, ye workers of the world!"
Building was opposite "Løberg grove" and Per Hov. The grocer's lads slept at "the hall" second floor left, little Einar between his parents at the privar flat on the right.
Eystein Eggen the younger, three quarters Hov and Skogstad and one quarter Eggen
Skiers from Holtaalen company, the oldest in Norway. The Eggen family from Vingelen had no part in the militaria of South Troendelag, and what they had brought with them,vanished in their fright of beeing tainted by the eggen family fascism.
Big brother. The grover's oldest son, Egil Eggen. Bust by the renowned artist Siri Aurdahl, exposed 1961 at the "Høstutstillingen" the annual presentation of norwegian contemporary art.
And from Eystein Eggen the older's brother in-law back home, Jon Kvernmo. "Dear bridal people!" Carpenter Kvernmo was the only widely recognized non-fascist around the eggens during the war, the family cover communists therfore claiming him as their real father
Eystein Eggen hailed in paper "Aftenposten" november 1986. Eysten and his friends at the agricultural university of Norway had saved confused afghanistanidealist from red wine communist smear campaign. The now secure idealist cut picture away and ran with article to the proper authorties with new stories about untamed Eggen. He was from a well known fascist mountain family.
Norwegian Foot Soldier 1940
