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| | "The Boy from Duck River" (Norway - the official site in the United States) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The place is Eidsvoll, Norway, the year is 1814, the issue is a country's hunger for independence, and the whole tale is presented through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy called Espen. |
 | | In Espen, the readers meet the world of a lonely boy whose father spends hours and days at the Eidsvoll Estate where he is the "horse king." His mother has passed away, and his older brother is off fighting in the Napoleonic war. |
 | | But with his father working for Carsten Anker who owns the Eidsvoll estate where the constitutional fathers gathered to write Norway's constitution, Espen comes face to face with history and people who forever are written into the history books, people who fought for Norway's independence with critical minds, sharp pens and ambitious visions. |
| www.norway.org /News/199801tale.htm (418 words) |
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