Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893 . e old man. But I must console myselfexactly as I did during the Arctic voyage. People whounderstand these things all declare that this post will be ofimmense service in advancing you in the world, and willenormously facilitate your studies. . Baldur Nansens first wife was the daughter of Major-General Sorensen, and sister to the wife of the poet JorgenMoe. His second wife (Fridtiofs mother) was AdelaideJohanna Isidora, nee Wedel-Jarlsberg, who also had beenmarried before. Mrs. Adelaide Nansen is described as a talland stately lady, capal^le and resolute, even-tempe
Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893 . e old man. But I must console myselfexactly as I did during the Arctic voyage. People whounderstand these things all declare that this post will be ofimmense service in advancing you in the world, and willenormously facilitate your studies. . Baldur Nansens first wife was the daughter of Major-General Sorensen, and sister to the wife of the poet JorgenMoe. His second wife (Fridtiofs mother) was AdelaideJohanna Isidora, nee Wedel-Jarlsberg, who also had beenmarried before. Mrs. Adelaide Nansen is described as a talland stately lady, capal^le and resolute, even-tempered andstraightforward, without any pretension on the score ofbirth and ancestry. She had a masculine will. It was CHILDHOOD 21 greatly against the wishes of her strict and aristocraticfather that she married a bakers son for her first , she carried her point, and her mother appears tohave sided with her in this afiair of the heart. The parentswere not at the marriage, although they had given nansens mother As a young girl she had defied opinion and cultivatedthat sport which her son was afterwards to render world-famous. She was devoted to snow-shoeing, which was atthat time thought unwomanly and even improper. As ahousewife, she was one of those who know every nook and corner of the house from attic to cellar- -active, managmg. 2il LIFE OF FRIDTIOF HANSEN ready with her hands and not afraid of the coarsest the servant had blistered her fingers, the lady of thehouse would herself take hold and wring out the wet worked in the garden, and she made her boys had no other tailor until they were eighteen yearsold. JN^evertheless, she found time to acquire the knowledgeshe had not stored up in early youth. Her will power andlove of activity, her intrepidity, her practical and resolutenature, have descended to her son. Mr. and Mrs. Nansen, after their marriage, settled downupon a small property belonging to her at Great Froe
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