BAMSE THE SEA DOG

One day many years ago, in the town of Honningsvåg in Norway, a sea captain named Erling Hafto came home carrying a very special gift – a little puppy.

It was the little dog’s first time away from home and he was nervous, but Erling gave him a basket to sleep in, next to the fire in the Haftos’ little wooden house.

The captain’s four children fell in love with the puppy immediately.

“What shall we call him?” asked Captain Hafto.

“He is cuddly like a teddy bear, so we should call him Bamse!” declared his daughter Vigdis. ‘Bamse’ is the Norwegian word for teddy bear, and they all agreed that it was the