# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/svarta-bjorn
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:48:36.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/svarta-bjorn"
name: "Svarta Bjorn"
slug: "svarta-bjorn"
description: "Anna Rebecka Hofstad was a Norwegian cook. She was known in history as Svarta Bjorn, Svarta Bjørn (Norwegian), and Svarta Björn (Swedish). She was active as a canteen cook for the railway navvies (workers) during the construction of the Iron Ore Line between Kiruna and Narvik in 1899–1901. She has been treated as a local legend in the history of the area and became the object of fiction."
tagline: "Norwegian railroad cook (1878–1900)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Svarta_Bjorn.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1878-04-07"
deathDate: "1900-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.2
  momentum:             9.594327884326598
  historical:           6.380709333333334
  currentAttention:     28.86710239651416
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 141
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svarta_Bj%C3%B6rn"
    title: "Svarta Björn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svarta_Bj%C3%B8rn"
    title: "Svarta Bjørn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svarta_Bjorn"
    title: "Svarta Bjorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%87_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "اسوارته بیورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svarta_Bj%C3%B8rn"
    title: "Svarta Bjørn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svarta_Bj%C3%B6rn"
    title: "Svarta Björn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svarta_Bj%C3%B8rn"
    title: "Svarta Bjørn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1776709"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump