Historian|Genealogist|Lawyer|Entrepreneur
NORDAHL BRUEFor the Press
Author biography, book synopsis, cover art, and high-resolution photographs are available on request.
Available June 2026
Nord is available for interviews about Norwegian history, the trials of Nils Trulsen Bru, and the long arc of free speech in northern Europe.
Booking: Contact Nord directly
The Munn Avenue Muse Podcast
Charlie Levin, Publisher & Founder, Munn Avenue Press ·
Nord sits down with Charlie Levin, publisher of Munn Avenue Press, to talk about the story behind the story. It started on Christmas Day 2001, when Nord — home alone with an unexpectedly quiet house — opened an email from Ancestry.com. That single click introduced him to Nils Trulsen Bru, his three-times-great-grandfather: a farmer-fisherman from a small island near Stavanger whose life turned out to hold a lost love, a war, two criminal trials, and a quiet act of political defiance that helped shape modern Norway. Twenty-five years, a mountain of parish records, and an estimated sixteen thousand living descendants later, it became a book.
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Norwegian Genealogy and then some
Martin Roe Eidhammer ·
“A model for how to turn painstaking archival genealogy into a story that a general reader — genealogist or not — will actually want to read cover to cover.”
A rigorously sourced review from the Norwegian genealogical community, praising the book's primary-source grounding, its clear explanation of Norwegian naming customs and archival structure, and the emigration thread that follows Nils's descendants to Story County, Iowa.
Amazon Customer Review
Ingrid Hansen ·
“I wasn't expecting a genealogical history to read almost like a page-turner, but that's exactly what Nordahl Brue has pulled off here… If you're a fan of narrative history in the vein of Erik Larson or David McCullough, or you're at all curious about how Norway's 1814 constitution actually took shape from the ground up, this is a wonderful, surprising read.”