History

«Jens po Thønningh» appears in the tax rolls; the name comes from the first settlers thinning the forest to make room.

Barbro Lassesdatter, sister of the farmer Johannes Lasseson, has a parcel of the Tynning farm separated out. It later becomes holding no. 3, where Isak and Brita lived and Lasse was born.

The neighbour Jon Johannesson is fined four ort of silver for taking a piece of field from the farmer of the new holding and sowing grain in it.

After a century and a half under the Knagenhielm magistrate family in Bergen, Johannes Olson Asheim buys the holding for 350 riksdaler (1803); his son Johannes Johannesson receives the allodial deed in 1812.

He becomes the father of Isak Tynning and grandfather of Lasse Tynning, carrying the farm into a new era through ditching, clearing and cultivation.

The following year he receives the deed to the farm; he «ditched, cleared and cultivated» it, according to the parish history.

Once again the farm passes through a daughter; he takes over in 1868 and builds a new farmhouse.

Lasse Torsteinsen of Øvre Haugland marries Brita Lassesdatter Tynning (1863); his brother Hans marries her sister Ingeborg (1864).

This made Isak Tynning and Torstein Haugland double first cousins — and Lasse and Aashild second cousins.

The farm wife and the nurseryman's wife, mother of nine children at Tynning.

The son who would build up the Tynning tree nursery.

Lasse Olsson Tynning from the neighbouring farm, a tailor and photographer, emigrates with his wife Oline and three children to Jewell in Hamilton County, Iowa. Others from Tynning and Haugland follow.

That same year, on 10 February, Åshild Haugland is born on the neighbouring farm.

The heir, named after both his grandfather and his great-grandfather.

Aged 98, having lived alongside four generations at Tynning.

Six weeks into the First World War, Isak Tynning answers an attack on the soldiers in the youth paper «Solsprett»: «to be or not to be».

He writes again in Gula Tidend (1918) and Bergens Tidende (1919).

Aashild qualifies as a teacher at Stord and takes her first post in Solund.

Lasse is a delegate for the Sogn youth societies and lectures in the temperance society.

Lasse graduates from Sandved horticultural school with the best mark of 17 pupils (1.54).

In that year's census he is listed as «Paa Hagebruks skule»; Aashild is listed as «lærarinna» in the Takle district of Brekke.

While digging a ditch on Isak's holding they find a 4,000-year-old stone hoe. Lasse brings it to Professor Shetelig at Bergen Museum, where it still rests as a «Gift from Isak Tynning».

The following year he buys Søndre Valler.

Sogns Avis honours Isak on his 70th birthday: five months of schooling, 28 years on the savings bank board, 40–50 mål of newly cultivated land and a nursery «every man in Sogn knows of».

Of Brita: «a singularly good and strong wife».

The nurseryman's son buys a nursery farm.

Lasse and Åshild marry and settle at Søndre Valler.

Four months after the wedding, «gartnar Lasse Tynning» is approved as an assessor for the Eidanger land board.

«Property transactions in Eidanger», Breviksposten 29 January: Mikael Aamot to Lasse Tynning for 68,000 kroner.

The first child at Søndre Valler and the eldest of the three siblings.

At Brekke, grandfather Lasse Torsteinsen dies (16 March).

«Valler Gartneri, Lasse Tynning, Eidanger st.» advertises in Nationen for two gardening apprentices, «a boy and a girl».

The second child at Søndre Valler.

Building plots with names such as «Alfheim», «Kolborg» and «Apalstad» are parcelled off from Søndre Valler. Where there was bog, a housing estate grows up.

Recommended for the teaching post in December 1936, she takes it up after the Christmas holidays — and the same year becomes chair of the Eidanger homemakers' association.

In May 1937 «Mrs Tynning, Telemark» speaks at a national farmers' union meeting, reported in Dagbladet: «The farmer's wife has always been a working woman.»

Åshild leads the agriculture committee of the Women's Labour Aid and teaches local women to run a farm should the men be called up.

Lasse quietly supports the intelligence work.

In the middle of the occupation.

Lasse receives the diploma of thanks from the intelligence service.

In Oslo, Bjørg Andersen is born.

She serves until 1952.

The same year he marries the gymnast Solveig Prøis.

That same year Tone is born, the first grandchild in Torstein's branch.

Torstein becomes national chair of the Young Conservatives, Brita marries the engineer Audun Aase and moves to Bergen, Signe is born (12 January).

In December Lasse becomes Porsgrunn's first chair of the conciliation board.

Obituaries in newspapers across the country.

At home Åsmund takes over the daily running of Søndre Valler.

At Brekke, grandmother Brita Østerbø dies (19 June).

The same year Gro is born.

August 1966: Åshild, who has taught there since 1937, is still at the school. Three years later Bjørg marries Åshild's son Åsmund.

Thirty years in the same classroom.

She would give Tveten school 49 years.

1970 – Åse Linda is born.

1972 – Øystein is born.

The matriarch of Søndre Valler.

The programme the party won the 1981 election on.

The film about children's play.

She chairs the main board of Odd and sits on the boards of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports and the Norwegian Olympic Committee.

The same year his grandson Christian is born (27 November). He is the first great-great-grandchild of Isak and Brita.

Christian (1985), Elise (1993), Syver (1996), Lars (1998) and Sara (2000). Five great-grandchildren in fifteen years.

Bjørg's mother.

The third generation since 1928.

September: Chosen from a large field of applicants, she hosts the programme live from a converted rolling mill in Nydalen.

From 2000 to 2015 she presents «God morgen Norge».

15 January 2000: Audun Aase, Brita's husband, dies in Bergen, aged 69.

2000: Fredrikke Tynning-Bergestuen is born, Åse Linda's first daughter.

2000: Solveig Prøis Tynning publishes the book «Hvem er de – hvem var de? Telemarkinger i norsk toppidrett».

18 November 2000: Torstein Tynning dies, aged 68.

Sofie (1994), Camilla (1996), Thomas (1998), Henrik (1999) and the twins Brita and Lise (2008). Six great-grandchildren in Brita's branch, all growing up in Bergen. One of the twins carries the great-grandmother's name onward: Brita, after Brita Tynning née Østerbø.

Åse Linda's youngest.

The eldest of the three children.

His grandmother Solveig: «He would have cheered.»

19 March 2014: Solveig Prøis Tynning dies.

That same year Lasse is born, and the name returns.

Fredrikke represents Norway at the World Championships in rhythmic gymnastics (and again in 2019).

Tone Tynning works at Tveten school, where her grandmother Åshild and her aunt Bjørg taught before her.

tynning.com opens, and the audio series is released in five episodes: «Løyndomen Lasse tok med i grava», «Røttene», «Navnet Lasse gjennom fire hundre år», «Haugane vart borte, Haugland vart att» and «Bondevenen, kommunisten og stortingsmannen».

Norway's Resistance Museum finds Lasse Tynning listed as a contact in Harald Rønning's XU report, dated 28 June 1945. It is the first primary document linking him to intelligence work during the war, sixty years after he took the secret to his grave.