Ulsholmen is an old homestead.
The houses have disappeared, but the ruins are still clearly visible. Ola Osmundsen (born 1765) is the first known farmer on Ulsholmen.
Osmund Olsen took over the farmstead from his father Ola, who died in 1843 as a beneficiary. Osmund was ironically nicknamed "The Count of Bjørnholmen" and wrote many anecdotes about the "Count" who "often spiced his speech with the stiff book language of Ulsholmen" and Abraham Ulsholmen always wore his best clothes: a shiny divided coat and a top hat, and a staff in hand". In 1901 the writer Gabriel Scott published a collection of short stories entitled "The Hunting Journal". While living in Uldalen and writing this book, he became acquainted with the places and people in the forest between Høvåg and Tveit Scott then made the "Earl of Ulsholmen" into one
central figure in the 1931 book "Der Barkefletcher".
"Der Barkenflechter" is a lively - and at the same time painful - story from a recent past in which the poor were an underclass who could hardly pave the way to recognition and a dignified life. Bark weaving was an important side trade on many farms in the coastal villages of southern Norway. In "Barke- on Ulsholmen, but the real weaver of the novel" lived here the "Count"
His name was Jørgen Sjømyr. The 1865 census shows that 3 people lived on Ulsholmen. Osmund Olsen (65) together with his wife Severine Ellingsdatter (68) and their son Ole C. Osmundsen (23). They had 2 sheep and 6 goats.

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