When Bergit Torsdatter was born in 1685, in Kviteseid, Telemark, Norway, her father, Tor Steinarsen Nordgarden, was 20 and her mother, Aslaug Halvorsdatter Borgja, was 22. She married Torbjorn Torsen in 1708, in Kviteseid, Telemark, Norway. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died in 1718, at the age of 33.