The croft was situated were the houses are today.

This place has been in the same family from 1865 when Gudtorm (crofter and tailor) lived here with his wife Gurine. He came from Gudbrandsdalen and was married twice. In 1937, the youngest grandchild bought the home, and today it is a holiday home. The name “Fjuru” probably comes from the long shoreline which makes it possible to go out to Kvamsholmene at low tide. This means that the islets become land-locked for a little while.

There are several protected seabirds nesting on the islets. In the past, both eggs and down were collected there. Sand was also taken from, and the islets were used as sheep pasture until quite recently.

Gudtorm was as mentioned a beach sitter. A beach sitter did not have land and livestock, but had right of use down to the sea. Together with two brothers he came from Lom in Gudbrandsdalen. Famine and bad times forced them, along with many others, to wander north to seek livelihood. The eldest of the brothers, Paul, settled in Verdal. He would have been one of the rebels in the “Levanger Rebellion” in 1851. This rebellion (Tranerørsla) was dramatised and set up as a theatre play in Levanger under the name “Raud Winter” (Red winter). Paul had to go to the house of corrections/jail for incitement.

The other brother supposedly ended up in Lofoten. Godtorm who was the youngest, born 1830, was married to Gurine from Stiklestad parish. They settled in Fjuruan around 1860 and had two children. The son Lørns married Ingeborg F. Valberg and they had 10 children. But shortly after the last child was born, Lorns, 45, died. Ingeborg was left and, in addition to raising all the children, also had to do duty work on the farm to pay rent. It was probably hard, but it went well and all the kids grew up. In 1937 one of his sons (Leif) bought the place and some land as well.

Fun fact: The floor in the boathouse north of here has been floor in Sakshaug old church. Before it arrived there it was a barn bridge at Ner-Kvam. When the new barn was built, the old barn was demolished and Leif got the barn bridges for boathouse floors. Recycling in action!