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Nordland families ((ノルウェー語:nordlandsslekt)) is a concept referring to older families of burgher or clerical estate in today's counties of Nordland and Troms, plus Finnmark, in Norway. These families belonged to the leading social classes of Northern Norway.〔 == Definition == There exists no fixed method for defining a Nordland family. Some basic factors are that they were socially established since the centuries before 1800, that they lived on the countryside, where they had typical burgher culture and professions, that they married each other, that they bore permanent family names, something that very few people had (ordinary people used patronyms), and that they often had roots outside Norway, mostly in Denmark and the Duchies. Many Nordland families are, in some cases extensively, described in written pieces especially of the 18th and the 19th century.〔 Among these are travel journals by Gustav Peter Blom, the Swedes Johan Erik Forsström, Sven Nilsson, and J.W. Zetterstedt, the German Leopold von Buch, and the Englishmen ''Sir'' Arthur de Capell Brooke and Frederick Metcalfe.〔 These families' culture, among other their way of being, society life, and dances, was different from that of ordinary people. It is said that all Nordland families may be traced back to the noble family Benkestok. Not all, but however several Nordland families descend cognatically from this family.〔 Among the most prominent is the family Ellingsen, whose progenitor Elling Christophersen (1676–1730) was a great-grandson of Margrethe Benkestok.〔 To Nordland families belong many nationally prominent persons, among others trader Erasmus B.K. Zahl (Knut Hamsun's ''Mack'') of the Zahl family, cabinet minister Sofus A.B. Arctander of the Arctander family, and cabinet minister Jakob M. Schøning of the Schøning family. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nordland families」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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