The Talle Gaard (The Talla Farm) '78 MEJP Coffee Mug

The Talle Gaard (The Talla Farm) 1978 MEJP Coffee Mug ... Artwork oil painting by my Great Aunt Margaret Enid Johnson Porter 1978. Her son, my dad's first cousin, Len Porter, gave me his permission, as follows here: "Dear Mark. Glad you are feeling better. Thanks for being in touch. We do own the Talle/ Talla painting. This email provides non-exclusive rights for you to promote, sell, or otherwise adapt and print reproductions of the painting including, but not limited to zazzle. The name Margaret Enid Johnson Porter or MEJP as artist should be used at all times either with the image or if not artistically possible with the promotion. The more attention for MEJP the better. I’ll follow up with more comments from your email but I want you to know i appreciate your interest in our mother, your great aunt as an artist. She dearly loved your grandmother, as is the case also for me." I love this painting! How cool is this!!! My Great Aunt Margaret Enid Johnson Porter and my Grandma Phyllis Talla Johnson Westerfield were sisters. Their mother, my Great Grandma Clara (Claire) Sage Talla was 100% "full blooded" Norwegian as the family would say, because all four of my great grandma's grandparents were all born in Southern Norway and immigrated to America in the mid 1800s. My great grandma's great grandparents, Nils and Susanna Christophersdatter Nitter Talla / Talle, lived and died at Talle Gaard (Talla Farm) in Lustrafjorden (Luster Fjord Valley) the northern-most and the inner-most branch of Sognfjorden (Sogn Fjord). A surviving branch of the Talla family still live on the same farm! As far as I understand it, their mail is sorted via the Sogn Fjord (formerly the Fylke Sogn og Fjordane) up to January 1, 2020), then to Hoyheimsvik (NW from Talla Farm), then to Talla Farm. I found that Susanna Christophersdatter Nitter Talla / Talle was born in Kjorlaug / Kjorlog Indre / Inner Hafslo, between Hafslo to the south and Joranger, the Benkestok estate, to the north and Gaupne to the northwest and Talla to the northeast, Lustrafjorden Sognefjorden Norway, she lived and died at nearby Talle Gaard (Talla Farm) ... She directly descended from Medieval and Viking Era kings in Norway through both her parents and she descended from both brothers Sigurd Havtoresson Sudreim and Jon Havtoresson Sudreim by many lines back to them, both being the grandsons of the last true Norwegian king in Norway King Haakon V Magnusson (who died in 1319) by his eldest child Princess Agnes Haakonsdatter who married the Norwegian nobleman the Baron of Sudreim Havtore Jonsson Roos, himself directly descended from earlier kings of Norway. So, this beautiful landscape painting shows the historical home of the Talle / Talla family in Norway. This is where my grandma's middle name Talla comes from ... it was her mother's (my great grandma's) maiden name. Talla Farm is in Luster Fjord Valley, the Northern-most and inner-most branch of greater Sogn Fjord, the former Kingdom of Sogn (Sokn). The fjords were created by ice glaciers carving out the land. Most of the Sogn fjord has steep sides and the fjord gets deeper the more you go toward its inner-most branch Luster Fjord. So this fjord reaches its deepest near Talla Farm. Across from Talla Farm is the magnificent Feigumfossen Waterfall. The farms of this region are famous for their fruit trees and for their jams and jellies. There is an ice glacier valley to the NW of Talla Farm. I am almost age 71 (born July 9, 1952) as I write this and only just recently found out about this painting by my Great Aunt Margaret Enid Johnson Porter. I think it is fantastic with its family relevant history! Mark Edward Westerfield, son of Frank Edward Westerfield, son of Phyllis Talla Johnson Westerfield, sister of Margaret Enid Johnson Porter. The sisters were daughters of Clara (Claire) Sage Talla whose great grandparents lived and died at Talle Gaard / Talla Farm.