Brunost in the Scandinavian countries since time immemorial. An archeological find from September 2016 in central Jutland has determined that a cheese residue on pottery from circa 650 B.C. is a type of cheese probably brunost. However, the creation of the modern, firm, fatty brunost is commonly attributed to the milkmaid Anne Hov from the rural valley of Gudbrandsdalen. In the second half of the 1800s, Gudbrandsdalen was suffering economically due to falling profits from grain and butter sales. While working at the Valseter mountain farm near Gålå in 1863, Anne Hov (sometimes named Anne Haav) came up with the idea
All Summer in a Day the Sun as "a penny", or "like a fire in the stove", and relays in a poem to the class that "I think the sun is a flower/That blooms for just one hour". The other children, being too young ever to have seen it themselves, do not believe her. The other students, in particular a boy named William, bully and ostracize her, and just before the sun comes out, William rallies the other children and they lock her in a closet down a tunnel. As the Sun is about to appear, their teacher arrives to take the class outside to