My aunt Helga gave me these years ago. They belonged to her father-in-law, my stepfather’s father, Ole. He died in 1929 and his two sons are also deceased, but my cousin Susan and I recently pieced the story together from what little we know.

Ole was illegitimate and had no future in Norway in the late 1880s. We think his mother made them for him when he left Norway for the US.

My rudimentary google skills told me that “erindring” means remember in Norwegian.

Maryann