- Gunleik Jonsson Helland
maker from Bø in Telemark.
Gunleik (the name was written both ways) Helland, son of the first fiddlemaker at Helland cotters farm, worked several years in his father's workshop until he left Bø and went to
Horten ,Norway and became a steam machine engineer in the Navy.He died 1863 in the North Atlantic when his ship D/S Rjukan, from Bugge's shipowners in Bergen, Norway sank south of
Iceland .See also
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The Helland fiddle maker family External links
* [http://internettforlaget.no/helland/ The Helland fiddle maker family]
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