“Then almost three years ago, there was a storm that the people here will never forget. The weather that morning and afternoon was fine. The sun shone and the wind came softly from the southwest. Even the oldest sailors did not see that a storm was coming.
“My brothers and I sailed to the islands at about two o’clock in the afternoon. We caught more fish that day that ever before. It was seven but my watch when we started for home. We wanted to cross the Storm at eight o’clock, when it was calm.
“We never dreamed of danger, because the weather seemed so good. Then the wind suddenly changed and became very strong. I looked behind me.
“The sky was covered by a great storm could. In less than two minutes the sky was completely black. Because of the darkness and the heavy rain, I could not see my brothers in the boat. It was terrible. Nobody in Norway remembers a storm like it.
