Annika
Thank
You, Grandpa
The older I get, the more I realize you are, Grandpa
stan. So, I've focused
what a wonderful my family
and your line of ancestors.
As I studied
the outcast
English
who took refuge
grandfather
Jacob,
homestead) I began All people anything
nobleman
to discover
accomplished,
ancestors
were the same.
generations
removed,
who condemned was forced
Charles
to flee the country.
However,
but never get
a doer, and your eight
English
drowned,
but our ancestor,
arrived
safely
and turned
life.
The Hirdemand
was tracked
away.
He was then sixty years old, but he was not about
down into the cellar cellar
officials
down in the end.
day, government
He invited
to get wine passage
this he made his notorious
One
came to his farm to take him
the men to come in and wait while
he had a secret
The children
he
he jumped
summer
give up.
noblemen
For this insurrection,
as The Hirdemand,
and family
in them.
So, with his brother,
The brother
who came to be known
to your
In the 1640s your grandfather,
I of England.
from
to
traits
led the group of determined
on a boat to Norway.
to farming
Minnesota,
and plot and gossip, you're
paper on you
in Norway,
your outstanding
but Gramps,
man
your forebears,
who came to Blue Earth,
preach
Ericksen
for them to drink.
to the mountains,
to
he went
From the
and through
escape.
and grandchildren
of The Hirdemand
lived
typical
Norwegian
determined
family.
old age trudging happily
peasant
So, Grandpa,
They were a strong,
Oksendahl,
your various
guard,
to serve
along with eleven
raised
his shoulders.
three generations Danish
for eight months other
their strength,
himself
I think of Hans
was under
control,
and
personal
Norwegians.
were lifting
various
Hans put his head under
to his full height
removed.
in the king's
strong-armed
Once when some of the others to measure
down the driveway,
projects,
your grandfather
He lived in the days when Norway he was commanded
hardy,
now, when I see you in your
those bags of cement
going about
Pederson
lives.
objects
a horse
with the horse hanging
and
across
The king asked him what they fed men in Norway
to make them so strong. Hans answered,
"Your Majesty,
in Norway
they feed men the
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oats."
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It sounds
exactly
easy sense of humor iron will.
balances
Your speech
you were born without trust others should
like something
your physical
is always
any potential
and property,
States
Minnesota.
as honorable
grandfather,
as a child
settled
and your
and I believe
for evil or cunning.
People
Your
You
experience
step on you, take
cheat you, and you never complain.
everyone
way with your paternal
family which
strength
to be as open as you are, even though
You still believe
the United
say, Grandpa.
good-natured,
have made you very distrustful.
your money
you'd
Jacob
in 1867.
on a homestead
as you. It was the same Dahl, who carne to
He was part of a large
in Blue Earth County,
Jacob was quiet and didn't
demand
and obedient
much.
work in some nearby himself
When Jacob
corn fields
sheriff
rancher
certainly
seemed
and earned
the purchase,
Jacob
identified
to wonder
guilty,
money
an alibi
to buy
had originally
survived
you, Grandpa, strength,
he never
As I venture
where
that arise.
Those who could
It turned
during
reflect
through
stan. Thank
I'
trial.
Jacob with
out that the gelding outfit.
his long life, and like Your optimism,
a line of ancestors
worthy
my own life, it is helpful I have
began
speak English
to
faith that I'll be okay
I go, and that I can pull through
This my ancestors
who
his brothers
lost faith in humankind.
those who went before.
no matter
Finally,
by the Jesse James
many trials
and determination
of honor. remember
been stolen
by the
property.
and they were able to provide
and get him released.
Jacob
was approached
was sent to jail without
what was happening.
made some inquiries,
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enough
he went to
it as his own, and Jacob,
Jacob was in jail for three weeks.
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was seventeen,
who told him the horse was stolen
A wealthy
Grandpa
He worked" hard
a fine bay gelding.
Not long after county
as a child.
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any hardships
have shown me, you.in
particular,
you.
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