 Usually, farmers of the Norwegian serfdom stock is not very well documented, often moving from homestead to homestead.Myllarguten's father was a country fiddler, one of many at the time, and Targjei was going for the fiddle from early age, but it is told he feared his father would beat him if he tried the instrument.So he sneaked himself to playing while his father was outside and at work at the local mill.