It was started in 1940, after initiative from Hans Aarnes, editor of the magazine Nynorsk Vekeblad.
Text writer was Leif Halse, and the first illustrator of the strip was Jens R. Nilssen, who made the drawings from 1940 to 1957.
Later illustrators were Atle Steinsfjord, Bjarne Kristoffersen, Ivar Pettersen and John Thoresen.
[1] The plot is set in the rural society of Todalen in Halsa Municipality in Nordmøre.
Among the central characters are the young brothers Steinar and Kåre Vangen, their mother Sigrid (widow and farmer), Sterk-Ola Bakken, Breiset-gubben and Larris Skjorhagen.