Olaf Gulbransson #1 Øyungen dam Traditional Cache

Han ble først og fremst regnet som norsk, selv om han i lange perioder av sitt liv var tysk statsborger. Av opprinnelse, natur, forutsetninger – i hele sin egenart – var han kav norsk. Enda riktigere og enda kortere sagt: han var seg selv, og noe for seg selv. Han var karikaturtegner i Tyrihans og Trangvikposten, men ble først og fremst berømt som tegner i det tyske vittighetsbladet Simplicissimus.

Fra sin tidlige barndom trivdes han som en sel i Kristianiafjorden, som en elg i Nordmarka. Fra han var 14 til han var 19 år streifet han omkring sammen sin venn Johan i de østlige delen av Nordmarka, ved Skjærsjøen, Øyungen og Ørfiske. På sine ferder i Nordmarka ble han kjent med Inga Pauline fra Liggern, og i 1897 ble de gift. Det ble mange vandringer til Liggern, tre mil frem, tre mil tilbake. Merkelige hendelser fra Nordmarka forteller han ellers om i erindringsboka "Det var engang", 1934. Boken utkom samtidig på tysk med tittelen "Es war einmal". I boka forteller han følgende om viderverdighetene med å komme seg over Øyungen.

Olaf Leonard Gulbransson was born in Kristiania (now Oslo) in 1873 as the oldest son of the book printer Edvard and his wife Olava. He died at Tegernsee in Bavaria in 1958.

He was primarily regarded as Norwegian even though he for a long period of his life had a German citizenship. Of origin, nature, presuppositions - in his whole being - he was purely Norwegian. Said more accurately and in short: He was genuinely himself and at the same time unique in himself. He worked as cartoonist in Tyrihans and Trangvikposten (Norwegian humour magazines), but got his fame as cartoonist for the German humour magazine Simplicissimus.

From his early childhood he felt comfortable as a seal in the fiord of Kristiania and as at home as a moose in the forest of Nordmarka. From the time he was fourteen to nineteen years of age he roamed with his friend Johan the eastern part of Nordmarka, the area around Skjærsjøen, Øyungen and Ørfiske. On his rambles in Nordmarka he became acquainted with Inga Pauline from Liggern (a farm situated by the northern shore of Øyungen). They got married in 1887. He visited Liggern many, many times - 30 kilometer each way. Gulbransson tells strange stories from Nordmarka in the memoirs "Det var en gang" published in 1934. (The book was published in Germany "Es war einmall" at the same time. No English translation).
In this book he tells about the annoyances in crossing the lake Øyungen.

Short English summary:
It was difficult to get to Liggern. It was not so bad in the wintertime when he could ski, but bad in the time of the breaking up of the ice. There was only one rowing boat on the lake, and many times the boat was occupied by a gang of "murderous" ruffians that came to the lake to go fishing