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...Mundal (pop. 150) is in the heart of Norway's scenic fjord country, and cruise-ship guides point it out as the place where Walter Mondale has his roots. Although nearly all Mondale's relatives left for the U.S. 130 years ago, the name evokes considerable civic pride. At the Mundal Hotel, where Mondale stayed in 1979, Manager Billie Orheim displays a guest book that reads, "Joan and I were thrilled to return home...
...across the fjord in Vangsnes (pop. 270) some folks, including Mondale's fourth cousin Gunda Langeteig, have a different view of history. Mondale's great grandfather, Frederick Vangsnes, was a native of Vangsnes, the town, she says. He went across to Mundal, where he married Brita Mundal and for some reason took her name. "If he had not done so, Walter Vangsnes would be the Democratic presidential candidate," she declares. The fjord rivalry has risen along with Mondale's fortunes. "We are not interested in a fight over which place has the thickest Mondale roots," insists...
...they talked, Carter was attracted by Mondale's deep concern for social issues, a set of beliefs that reflect the hardy strain of populism and reformism that grew up in America's Northern plains. Frederick Mundal, his great-grandfather, emigrated from Norway's Sogne Fjord in 1856 to become a homesteading farmer in Minnesota. The candidate's father, Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, was a farmer and a land speculator who became a Methodist minister before being wiped out in the '20s by a series of misfortunes-including the long and financially draining illness of his first...
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