What: The former Frydenlunds hotel

Where: 2910 Aurdal, Norway

Here it is: Description coming soon

No, of course not! The blue plaque in the porch is NOT to commemorate, that a certain norwegian poet lived here for some time - and had a life-long friendship with the son of the house, Erik Frydenlund, - and sent his own sons Tore and Arild here to strengthen their health in the pure mountain air and to let them follow school here. Of course not. The plaque is a memorial to the famous sportsman Petrus Scheltemer Beduin, the first foreign motortourist in Norway, who spent the night here on September 1st 1901 on his way from Kristiania to Lærdal. The car was a Panhard & Levassor!

New: This situation has now changed, on 22 August 2009 Leif Hamsun, Knut Hamsun's grandchild, inaugurated a Hamsun room, which will contain a permanent mini-museum in one of the former hotel's guestrooms. Description and photos will come, as soon as we again have been on tour in Norway.

Hamsun writes to Erik Frydenlund from Lillesand in June 1890: Dear Erik! How did you like "Hunger", gruesome I suppose? I'm stranded here at least for 1 month. To where you will thus send me a postcard. Greetings to Johanne 16 times. Ask her, if she finds me gruesome? Yours Knut H. It could be, that I pass by sometime in summer for a week or so.