When Marta Isaksdatter Dyrdal was born in 1889, in Aurland, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, her father, Isak Johannessen Hatlelid, was 4 and her mother, Synneva Olsdatter Styvi, was 24. She lived in Dyrdal, Aurland, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway in 1900. She died in 1979, at the age of 90.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Nels.
Norwegian: habitational name from a farm so named, from dyr ‘deer, elk, moose’ + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.
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