Nusfjord i Lofoten

NUSFJORD AND DAHL

It was Hans Grøn Dahl that developed Nusfjord into a Merchant place. In 1843 Dahl bought the second part of Nusfjord and would with the third and last part own all of Nusfjord. He bought the last part in 1847.
From 1847 there was just one owner of Nusfjord. In 1853 he also bought the neighbour fishing town, Strømmen.
Hans got six children. His oldest son died young so the youngest of his children, Bernhard, became the new owner of Nusfjord and Strømmen. Because of the fact that Bernard was very young Hans’s son in law, Amandus Andersen, controlled Nusfjord for five years until Bernhard was ready.
Bernhard was the owner from 1882 to 1932, he has developed Nusfjord into the style and structure that is today.
In 1899 he got a son, Hans. Hans Dahl went to school in Trondheim. He studied trading in Bergen and worked three years abroad until he returned to Nusfjord in 1923. Hans entered the business in 1932. His father Bernhard died in 1938.
Hans and his brother in law build a dock in the western part of Nusfjord called Vika.
Hans and his wife had four children. The oldest one, Bernhard, got control over Nusfjord in 1962. The company was from now on named A/S Bernhard Dahl. Hans Dahl died in 1967.
Nusfjord as it is today is completely marked by four generations of the Dahl family.

In Nusfjord the owner had everything that was usual in this time. He had a post-office, telegraph and a steamship-dock. There was also a sail-ship for transporting stockfish south to Bergen. Around 1900 this ship was called Orianna. It was 90 feet long and had a four ton led keel.

A romantic love story got this ship to Nusfjord from England where it had belonged to a lord. A boy from Salten came to England and got a job onboard the “Orianna”. On a long trip the lord brought his daughter, whose name also was Orianna. On this trip the daughter fell in love with the boy from Salten. She wanted to marry him, but here father wanted differently. To get rid of the boy he offered him “Orianna” and asked him to go home to Norway.
This way “Orianna” ended up in Norway, where Bernard Dahl bought it from the boy.
“Orianna” sank outside of Brønnøysund in 1908 in bad weather. The figurehead is in Nusfjord in Oriana Kro.