Brunost to the mix for a more pronounced taste. The local trader Ole Kongsli liked it so much he thought there might be a market for the product in the capital, Oslo. He started exporting it to his business contacts in Oslo under the name Gudbrandsdalsost ("Gudbrand Valley Cheese"), and it became so successful that it contributed significantly to the economy of the region, thus helping Gudbrandsdalen out of recession. In 1933, aged 87, Hov received the King's Medal of Merit ("Kongens fortjenstmedalje") for her contributions to Norwegian cuisine and economy. In modern times, the world's largest producer of brunost is
Norwegian A-class submarine Norwegian A-class submarine The A-class submarines were a class of three vessels of German design built by the Krupp Germania naval shipyard in Kiel, Germany from 1913 to 1914 and deployed by the Royal Norwegian Navy. The Norwegian government purchased four submarines that were almost completed in 1913 and received three of these before World War I. The fourth, "A-5", was seized by German authorities at the outbreak of war and commissioned as . It was used for coastal protection and from 1916 as a training vessel in the Baltic Sea. All three A-class submarines were lost in the first