''Solungen'' was a Norwegian newspaper, published in
Åsnes
Åsnes is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flisa, which is also the largest village in the municipality with around 1 ...
in
Hedmark
Hedmark () was a county in Norway before 1 January 2020, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar.
Hedmark and Oppland counties were merged i ...
county.
''Solungen'' was started in
Flisa
Flisa is the administrative centre of Åsnes Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village lies at the confluence of the rivers Flisa and Glomma. The Norwegian National Road 2 and the Solørbanen railway line both pass through the vil ...
on 8 September 1904 by Evald Bosse (not to be confused with Ewald Bosse). As indicated by its name, it covered the district
Solør Solør is a Norwegian traditional district consisting of the valley between Elverum in the north and Kongsvinger in the south. It is part of Innlandet county and it includes the municipalities Våler, Åsnes, and Grue.
Glomma valley
Glommadal ...
and had the subtitle ''Organ for Solørdistrikterne''. It was an apolitical, or non-partisan, newspaper. When Bosse moved from Flisa in 1906, he wanted to sell it. His asking price was , but J. M. Enger and August Embretsen from the local labour movement bargained the price down to NOK 6,000. The
Norwegian Labour Party
The Labour Party ( nb, Arbeiderpartiet; nn, Arbeidarpartiet; A/Ap; se, Bargiidbellodat), formerly The Norwegian Labour Party ( no, Det norske Arbeiderparti, DNA), is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is positioned on the centr ...
formally took over the newspaper on 1 January 1907. Embretsen became the first labour mayor in
Åsnes
Åsnes is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flisa, which is also the largest village in the municipality with around 1 ...
in 1910. The newspaper faced problems in the local community, especially with lack of advertisements, but also when the landlord of their headquarters unilaterally stopped the tenancy in the summer of 1907. The newspaper was moved to
Kjellmyra
Kjellmyra is a village in Åsnes Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the river Flisa, about north of the village of Flisa and about south of the village of Gjesåsen.
The village has a population (2021) o ...
.
''Solungen'' pretended to be an organ for the whole of
Hedmark
Hedmark () was a county in Norway before 1 January 2020, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar.
Hedmark and Oppland counties were merged i ...
county, as the Labour Party had no other newspaper here. The local party representatives and the national board had agreed to it by September 1907. Outside of Solør it was published as ''Hedemarkens Amts Socialdemokrat (Solungen)'' from August 1908. People elsewhere in the county grew unsatisfied with this, and started ''
Demokraten
("The Democrat") is a local newspaper in Fredrikstad, Norway. Second in its city behind , it is published three days a week. The chief editor is Tomm Pentz Pedersen.
It was established in 1906 as , being affiliated with the Labour Party. Retri ...
'' in September 1909, which covered the northern parts of the country,
Hamar
Hamar is a List of cities in Norway, town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet Counties of Norway, county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Hedmarken. ...
,
Hedemarken
Hedmarken (, ; known as ''Hedemarken'' until 2003) is a traditional district in Innlandet county in Eastern Norway.
Hedmarken consists of the municipalities Stange, Hamar, Løten, and Ringsaker. In the past, it also contained the municipalities ...
and
Østerdalen
Østerdalen () is a valley and traditional district in Innlandet county, in Eastern Norway. This area typically is described as the large Glåma river valley as well as all its tributary valleys. It includes the municipalities Rendalen, Alvdal, F ...
.
The newspaper's chief editors were Evald Bosse from 1904 to 1906, then
Cornelius Holmboe
Cornelius Holmboe (17 April 1881 – 16 November 1947) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Justice in 1928.
Personal life
He was born in Tromsø as the youngest son of physician Johannes Michael Holmboe (1844–19 ...
from 1907 to April 1908, Ola Solberg from April 1908 to April 1909,
Ivar Færder
Ivar Marius Færder (19 July 1886 – ??) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties.
He was born at Færder in Åsnes as a son of farmers Helge Lundkvist and Karen Færder. He took basic education in hi ...
from April 1909 to May 1910, Waldemar Carlsen from May 1910 to October 1913, Johs. Dahl from October 1913 to his death next month, then a committee until April 1914, then E. F. Lenning from April to July 1914 and finally Ole Ruud.
''Solungen'' survived the local conservative newspaper, '' Solørposten'' which went defunct in June 1913. ''Solungen'' itself went defunct after its last issue on 31 December 1914. It was merged into '' Glommendalens Social-Demokrat'' from 1915. Many years later a new newspaper tried to launch itself as ''Avisen Solungen'', but was persuaded (through a
settlement
Settlement may refer to:
*Human settlement, a community where people live
*Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building
* Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction
*Settlement (fin ...
) to use '' SolungAvisa'' for trademark reasons as the newspaper '' Glåmdalen'', a successor of ''Glommendalens Social-Demokrat'', as late as 29 February 2008 had applied to the