Dahl Family Facts and Fiction by Annika Ericksen (high school paper)

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Annika

Thank

You, Grandpa

The older I get, the more I realize you are, Grandpa

stan. So, I've focused

what a wonderful my family

and your line of ancestors.

As I studied

the outcast

English

who took refuge

grandfather

Jacob,

homestead) I began All people anything

nobleman

to discover

accomplished,

ancestors

were the same.

generations

removed,

who condemned was forced

Charles

to flee the country.

However,

but never get

a doer, and your eight

English

drowned,

but our ancestor,

arrived

safely

and turned

life.

The Hirdemand

was tracked

away.

He was then sixty years old, but he was not about

down into the cellar cellar

officials

down in the end.

day, government

He invited

to get wine passage

this he made his notorious

One

came to his farm to take him

the men to come in and wait while

he had a secret

The children

he

he jumped

summer

give up.

noblemen

For this insurrection,

as The Hirdemand,

and family

in them.

So, with his brother,

The brother

who came to be known

to your

In the 1640s your grandfather,

I of England.

from

to

traits

led the group of determined

on a boat to Norway.

to farming

Minnesota,

and plot and gossip, you're

paper on you

in Norway,

your outstanding

but Gramps,

man

your forebears,

who came to Blue Earth,

preach

Ericksen

for them to drink.

to the mountains,

to

he went

From the

and through

escape.

and grandchildren

of The Hirdemand

lived


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