The village was founded in 1798 and it reach it's maximum size at the end of the 1940s with about 80 inhabitants. Today it consists of 13 farms with a total of about 25 people. Mail service (delivery once a week) was started in early 1900, phone came 1927. Electricity in 1941.

It is also the name of a swedish song-artist called STORSIEN and you can listen and download his work in swedish from

www.free-albums.net/mp3/search/artist/ Storsien&template=dark