Quite short today; just back from cruising the coast of Norway. And it was fabulous (Hurtigruten; we recommend it). I learned that second to Ireland, Norway lost the most folks to emigration and I could certainly imagine why. Too many rocks, too little farm area, too few forests, rocks, cold seawater, monotonous diet (cod), etc. Apparently many left from Trondheim where next to a statue of Leif Ericson (hubby John posing) there was a 30-foot long wall with plaques bearing the names and dates of many of those emigrants. Is all this info in a database somewhere???

No wonder they left………. what would lure YOU away from such as this? See the drying codfish?