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Mr. Dyvel was a Secorifabrikmester i Christiania in 1865. Secori in this case is probably a coffee substitute, see Chicory#History and fabrikmester means master in a factory. Chicory was also sometimes used in beerbrewing. He could also have been in charge of the use of chicory in a factory. His full name was Martin Frantz Fredrik Dyvel and he was born in 1826 in Magdeburg in Germany. His wife was Thorine Andersdatter born in 1825 in Drammen in Norway. He had according to the census i 1865 4 daughters and a son. He lived with his family in Rosenkrantzgaden no 11 in Oslo which at the time was called Christiania. Link to census.

The records also reveals a beertradesman (Ølhandler) named Dyvel. His first name is not known. His is known because he is mentioned in the sentencing of a Bernt Olsen, where Mr. Olsen is sentenced to 30 days in jail (water and bread) because Mr. Olsen among other things should have delivered bread at the value of 1 spesiedaler to Mr. Dyvel, but failed to to so and delivered it to someone else. Mr. Olsen owed money to this someone else and his employer, the owner of the bread, should have had the payment for the bread. This happened in 1862. This is found in pages 573-574 in: Repertorium for praktisk Lovkyndighed : en afkortet Bearbejdelse af Norsk Retstidende, samt Udvalg af ældre Højesteretsdomme. Saml. 4 : 1861-1863. 1, med Register, digitally available to Norwegian IP adresses.

It is not known if the beersalesman Mr. Dyvel and the Secorifabrikmester is the same person. The name is not common in Norway. Actually these two (or one) could be the only one/s. The name Dyvel does not appear in the 1801 census or the 1875 and later censuses. But Dyvelen is a name describing a feature of the terrain in Norway and probably quite unconnected to the above mentioned Mr. Dyvels. Dyvelen is actually several places and at least one seems to have been a very little farm. People usually used the farmname in lieu of a second name in the olden days. The available censuses does not reflect such a usage.

One dyvel, dyvelen (the dyvel) (singular), dyveler, dyvelene (plural) is also a Dimling (dømling, dymling, dybel, duvlung, dublung, lus, blinding) which is a quite practical piece of wood, a wooden "nail" used in shipbuilding and in houses.

There is also a poetical usage by Ludvig Holberg and Petter Dass which is not nice, and when Jacob Sande invented Dyveldi it was no better. Having chosen a username when I reread Sande I was a bit surprised at my own bad memory, so maybe sometime I will ask to have my username changed to Dyvelen or Dyvel in the meanwhile I'll forget about the poetical usage and stay a prosaic person.