[Norwegian website translated HELP!!!]

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From: Kathy Boyce (kboyce3971@verizon.net)
Date: 09/01/2008-22:09

I have found a Norwegian badge, and googled the words and dates, and found one
website that I think might have some information. Not about the badge itself,
but about whats on the badge. If anyone can tell me what they are talking about
I would be very grateful. Here is the link.
http://hem.passagen.se/jejn/frame/bok.html

It's a swedish site... and Norway is NOT the capital of Sweden. (as lots of US
citicens tend to believe )
The site is about "Svarta Bjørn", the nick name for a female cook working among
casual labourers building railway in northern part of Sweden and Norway.

have a nice day.

So Sorry for my ignorance. I know about Svarta Bjørn aka Anna Norge. I did find
that much in english on the internet. I was more interested in the center part
of the page where the dates 1898-1903 are found. I think this badge (made in
Norway) might have something to do with some kind of cooking contest held in
Norway and Sweden. The words on the badge are "Svarta Bjørn" across the top, and
"1898 Ofotenbanan 1903" at the bottom. 

Here is the section I am interested in....

Ofotenbanan:

Gellivare - Kiruna - Narvik 1898 - 1903

Inget järnvägsbygge har betytt så mycket för en regions utveckling och framtid
som Ofotenbanan - Riksgränsbanan. Jan.Erik Johansson har i sin bok fångat
dramatiken och rallarnas hårda vardag. Bokens centrala gestalt är Svarta Björn.
Den legendariska rallarkockan, vars liv är fyllt av många och spännande sägner.

För de 6000 rallare som byggde järnvägen var en kocka som kunde hushålla och
laga rejäl mat, guld värd. Kanske är det just i detta förhållande som det
hemlighetsfulla kring Svarta Björn skapats. Fanns hon, eller är hon bara
uppdiktad i de drömmar som skapades under det hårda pionjärlivet? En rallarnas
dröm? Vad som är legend och verklighet, får vi kanske aldrig veta. Men i
Jan-Erik Johanssons bok lever Svarta Björn vidare som legenden från
rallartiden.

Den spännande boken "Svarta Björn - Legend och verklighet" - har redan sålts i 1
700 exemplar! 

 

Here follows a translation. But it's nothing about a cooking contest there.

No railway construction has done so much for the innovation and future of a
region as the Ofot railway - international border railway. J.E. Johansson has in
his book captured the drama and the harsh daily life of the workers. The central
character in the book is Svarta Bjørn. The legendary cook for the workers, whoms
life is filled with many and exiting legends.

A cook who could do housework and cooking was worth it's weight in gold for the
600 workers who builded the railway. Maybe that's why the mystery around S.Bjørn
was created. Did she exist, or was she just made up in those fantasies that was
made during the hard pioneer life? A railway worker's dream? What is legend and
reality, we may probably never know. But in the book of J.E. Johansson S.Bjørn
lives on as the legend from the time the railway was build.

The exiting book "Svarta Bjørn - Legend and Reality" has already been sold in
700 ex.!

Thanks you for your time.
Kathy

if someone need help contackt me;-)

u mean "contact", Chiquitito? ;)