English: The farm Sjønstå is first mentioned in historical sources in the tax man census from 1665 under the name Süinstad, and there is information about a caretaker named Baard Pedersøn. In the cadastre one year later, two farmers are listed on Sjønstå, this is the previously mentioned Baard Pedersøn and, in addition, Guttorm Pedersøn. It is conceivable that these are brothers. The king's rent is set at 1 weigh (18 kg) of dried fish. The high tax may mean that the farm was abandoned after the Black Death in the Middle Ages. However, no archaeological finds have been made from the Middle Ages, some of which indicate that this farm, as well as the other farms around Lake Øvrevatnet, are new clearings from the second half of the 17th century.