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Issues with consideration of later clan generations showed that the earlier research was not good enough. Therefore, the ambition became to write a complete representation of the saga of the clans at Ornes, Mel and
Hatteberg from the Middle Ages to about 1600, in addition to a section about the
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said that in the period 1670-1870 the family started marrying commoners, and thus, should be considered to have lost their nobility (later it was asserted that this position was influenced by the Danish, whose nobility, to a large degree, supplanted
Norwegian nobility during the
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Torsnes, which is still occupied by descendants today. By the end of the 18th century, many of the family's members could be found in the cities, populating professional classes as
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A male-lineage connection between the two families has not been identified. A female-line bridging them was long proposed until that too was debunked in 1950, by professor Lars Hamre's discovery of the
Torsnes' family lineage in
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The first family called Galte, belongs to what was called the
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in color and a new drawing of the shield in a modern style)
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Galtungs in history books.
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Hiort-Lorenzen, Hans Rudolf; Thiset, Anders (1916).
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432:. Slektshistoriewiki. Archived from
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169:Norske Sigiller fra Middelalderen
133:Living descendants today include
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349:(in Norwegian Bokmål). Norway.
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456:"Statistics Norway - Navnesøk"
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