Thrond Sjursen Haukenæs, who started gathering folk material after meeting Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, a Norwegian writer and scholar, during a collection expedition in Hardanger in the summer of 1870, published a request in several newspapers in Western Norway for people in Hardanger, Voss, and neighboring villages to send him manuscript collections with oral traditions in 1882.
Thrond Sjursen Haukenæs, who started gathering folk material after meeting Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, a Norwegian writer and scholar, during a collection expedition in Hardanger in the summer of 1870, published a request in several newspapers in Western Norway for people in Hardanger, Voss, and neighboring villages to send him manuscript collections with oral traditions in 1882.