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requesting help reading Norwegian death record 1866

Carol Hennum Kendall
Carol Hennum Kendall ✭✭
August 14, 2024 edited August 14, 2024 in Social Groups

It is the record for Siri Asbjørnsdatter, #14 on this page:
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/931/347

I can read all but the cause of death.

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  • Norm Baker
    Norm Baker ✭✭✭✭
    August 15, 2024 edited September 11, 2024

    I cannot make out the first couple of words but after that I believe it says "fell in the lake and died of drunkenness (drukkenskab)". Drowning is drukning, which was probably the actual cause of death, but the record definitely says "drukkenskap (drukkenskab) = drunkenness".

    There is another version of this death record here: https://media.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/933/366

    This says she was "found dead in the water at a wharf in Flekkefjørd".

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  • Forrest Emmett
    Forrest Emmett ✭✭✭
    August 21, 2024

    For https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/931/347, my reading is:

    "sanssynligviis falden i Søen og død i drukkenskab/drukkneskab"

    "probably fell in the sea and died by drowning"

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  • Carol Hennum Kendall
    Carol Hennum Kendall ✭✭
    September 11, 2024

    Thank you both! She was quite young when she died, so the cause of death was quite a curiosity.

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