Guri Jonsdatter Lid born 1831
Started by carl johnson · 2024-05-02
carl johnson · 2024-05-02#1
I found this biography of Guri when I was translating Vossaboki and found it interesting and wondering if anybody had done any research on this woman. She was unique because of what she did and the fact she was a woman during these times
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Guri Jonsdatter Lid was born in 1831. She was a strange woman. She traveled to America in 1853 and wrote the page for Julia Lie. She was in the ministry for several years, then traveled for about 10 years preaching the word of God and practicing penance. In 1868 she came to Liverpool in England, went to Dover, took over to Calais and walked on through France and Belgium to Coblenz, where she was seen stuck. When she was free there, she wandered on and came to Rome in 1869. After she was imprisoned and free there, she was on her way to a seaport to travel by ship to Egypt and wanted to go to Jerusalem. In Venice, the police took her in 1870 and sent her to Vienna, where she was admitted to a mental hospital. In January 1871 she was sent to Voss. But in the fall In 1871 she came to Jutland and in 1872 to Vaasa in Finland. She was then traveling, she said, to Russia and on to Turkey. From Vaasa it was written that she was a woman who had walked on all her journeys on land and carried a backpack on her back. Her behavior testifies to daning. The exterior was sleek and appealing and the dress was polite for the way she traveled. Wanting to obey the Savior's words, she said, "Go forth in value and teach all people." She always walked, because the Savior did and, she said. When asked what she lived on, she replied that God cared that people were hospitable to her. After a meeting she held on her travels, she accepted what people gave her. She did not want to collect money, because the Savior had forbidden it. Guri or Julia must be dead now, but where or when have we not seen anything about.
A stone coffin has been found in a field on Lid, which is said to be from the time of the migration. There were two clay vessels, two spears, an ax and a sock. A stone ax has been found in another place. All things are at Bergens Museum. In a handwritten description of Voss in the Geographical Survey, it is said that a grave find was made at Lid in Raundalen from the older Iron Age, and it indicates that there have been blunt people far back in pagan times.