Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway

So farewell, The students’ wandering life! Sweet serenades Sung under ladies’ Windows in the night, And all that makes vacation beautiful!-- To you, ye cloistered shades of Alca...

“We remounted, and I rode on, thinking of the vision of loveliness I was leaving in that wild dell. We travel a great way to see hills and rivers, thought I; but, after all, a h...

Helpe me wonder, her’s a booke Where I would for ever looke. Never did a gipsie trace Smoother lines in hands or face; Venus here doth Saturne move, That you should be the Queen...

CAMP ON LILLE MJÖSEN--THE SKJYRI FJELD--AN ACQUAINTANCE FROM EISBOD--CAMP RULES CONFIRMED--OUR GIPSY NOAH--ENGLISH SPOKEN--SINGULAR STONE--ILOE STATION--OUR FRIEND FROM EISBOD--...

COLONEL SINCLAIR--QVAM CHURCH--DEATH OF SINCLAIR--MONSIEUR LE CAPITAINE--THE HIGHFLYER--THE HEDALS--ROMANTIC LEGEND--ANTIQUE MANSION--THE KRINGELEN--KIND RECEPTION--WARM WELCOME...

Ewn law law, cymm’rwn lili, A’u blodau’n rhanau i ni, A bysedd rhwymwn bosi, Ffel yw hyn nid ffol wyt ti, Rhoet yn glòs, fel ar rosyn, Gwlwm da ar galon dyn.

Our donkeys were pressed onwards, and passed some carts laden with merchandise. Anxiously our gipsies looked out for a camping ground. The waters of the lake, dashed in waves on...

“That gipsy grandmother has all the appearance of a sowanee” (sorceress).--“All the appearance of one!” said Antonio; “and is she not really one? She knows more crabbed things,...

As Cadurcis approached, he observed some low tents, and in a few minutes he was in the centre of an encampment of gipsies. He was for a moment somewhat dismayed; for he had been...

“Let us rest a bit in our tent this fine evening to collect our memoranda from the note-book hurriedly pencilled. Yet it is not easy to withdraw the eye from the beautiful pictu...

Thy gipsy-eye, bright as the star That sends its light from heaven afar, Will, with the strains of thy guitar, This heart with rapture fill. Then, maiden fair, beneath this star...

“Commend me to gipsy life and hard living. Robust exercise, out-door life, and pleasant companions are sure to beget good dispositions, both of mind and body, and would create a...

“I do not know any queen of that name.” “Even among the gipsies?” “It is true,” said Fernand, “I had forgotten the gipsies have kings.” “And queens,” said Grinesta. P/

No lust of wealth, nor scent of distant war, Nor wisdom’s glory lures them on afar; ’Tis not for these the children of the night Have burst at once on realms of life and light;...

“He grows, like the young oak, healthy and broad, With no home but the forest, no bed but the sward; Half naked, he wades in the limpid stream, Or dances about in the scorching...

“That the language of the Hindoos and that of the ancient Egyptians may have sprung from the same root is very probable; nay, it is almost certain. The language of the latter is...

Your pulses are quickened to gipsy pitch; you are ready to make love and war, to heal and slay, to wander to the world’s end, to be outlawed and hunted down, to dare and do any...

They played on the guitar until the warm day had given place to the starry night. I sat on my balcony, and looked on with pleasure at the gaiety of youth.

There is something remarkable in the eye of the Romany. Should his hair and complexion become as fair as those of the Swede or the Finn, and his jockey gait as grave and ceremon...

Our bill was moderate--four dollars, four marks, and eight skillings; twenty-four skillings for attendance seemed quite sufficient. Our things were all placed on a truck; Esmera...

The guitar is part and parcel of the Spaniard and his ballads; he slings it across his shoulder with a ribbon, as was depicted on the tombs of Egypt four thousand years ago. The...

Where is the little gipsy’s home? Under the spreading greenwood tree, Wherever she may roam, Where’er that tree may be; Roaming the world o’er, Crossing the deep blue sea, She f...

“He checked his steed, and sighed to mark Her coral lips, her eyes so dark, And stately bearing--as she had been Bred up in courts, and born a queen. Again he came, and again he...

“Many times he would go into the forest of the peeke, and set up ther his tent, with great provision of viteles, and would remaine ther vii weeks or more hunting and making othe...

“The moss your couch, the oak your canopy; The sun awakes you as with trumpet call; Lightly ye spring from slumber’s gentle thrall; Eve draws her curtain o’er the burning west,...

If the gipsies are not the dispersed Egyptians, where are that scattered people? If the dispersed and scattered gipsies are not the descendants of the offending Egyptians, what...

From every place condemn’d to roam, In every place we seek a home. These branches form our summer roof, By thick-grown leaves made weather-proof. In shelt’ring nooks and hollow...

“For the dance, no music can be better than that of a gipsy band; there is a life and animation in it which carries you away. If you have danced to it yourself, especially in a...

What if in yonder chief, of tattered vest, Glows the same blood that warmed a Pharaoh’s breast?-- If in the fiery eye, the haughty mien, The tawny hue of yonder gipsy queen, Sti...

“There was a gipsy’s tent, close beside me, and a party of about ten of this wandering tribe were seated around a wood fire, which habit seemed to make them approach closely to,...

These prophecies are repeated, particularly by Ezekiel, many times almost in the same words in different chapters (see particularly the whole of the 30th and 32nd), as if he wer...

It was the afternoon of the third day after the arrival of Cadurcis at the gipsy encampment, and nothing had yet occurred to make him repent his flight from the abbey, and the c...

after five o’clock. _En àvant_ was the word; away went tall Noah in advance, with the Puru Rawnee before him, the rest following, bag and baggage, as hard as the party could go,...

On Sunday morning, the 19th of June, we rose at four o’clock, and went on deck. The morning was cloudy; not a passenger to be seen. The seaman at the helm received our salutatio...

“The King of the Gipsies, or El Capitan as he is called, is a fine musician, and we invited him to come up to the hotel one evening to play to us. Captain Antonio’s company is n...

“I fear, Colonel,” I replied, “that I must plead guilty to having been an associate of these gipsy vagabonds, and I may as well add that I have spent nearly all the summer with...

“The best books are records of the writer’s own experiences of what he himself has seen or known, or--best of all--has done. The writing then becomes naturally concrete, perspic...

“ZARCA. It is well. You shall not long count days in weariness: Ere the full moon has waned again to new, We shall reach Almeria; Berber ships Will take us for their freight, an...

“Gipsies, although long forgotten, and despised, have claims which we must not resist. Their eternal destinies, their residence in our own land, point us to a line of conduct we...

“Free as the winds that through the forest rush-- Wild as the flowers that by the way-side blush. Children of nature wandering to and fro, Man knows not whence ye come, nor wher...

The very look of each of them denotes strong talent; while in whatever they have undertaken to perform, they seem to have surpassed others, whilst they are at once unabashed and...

We had nearly completed our preparations, and were leaving town, when we dined one evening with a friend whom we had not seen for some time. He seemed interested in our approach...

⁂ The engravings are by Edward Whymper, author of “Scrambles amongst the Alps,” and have been taken from sketches made by the author during his wanderings in Norway, or from pho...

“He is an excellent oriental scholar, and he tells me that amongst the gipsies are the remains of a language (peculiar to themselves) in which are traces of Sanscrit. Sir David...

Now, where is the kettle? so hungry are we, Surely our supper the next thing must be; The fire already is blazing up high, And asking for rashers of bacon to fry; The damper is...

The gipsy signal--Our Australian meat--The fair poetess--Our friend from Eisbod ill--The Rye’s unwell--The Lehnsmœnd of Bang--The ferryman and son--We cross to Beina--Tatersprog...

Camp on Lille Mjösen--The Skjyri Fjeld--An acquaintance from Eisbod--Camp rules confirmed--Our gipsy Noah--English spoken--Singular stone--Öiloe station--Our friend from Eisbod-...

The Meisgrie--We cross a river--The slippery rock--An active guide--The carrier’s aid--The lame horse--Melkedalstinderne--The stony way--The Nedrevand--Ole’s night quarters--The...

We leave the Beina--The Lille pige--Any port in a storm--The fairies’ visit--The Spirilen--Ytre Aadalen Val--Large bondegaard--Heen woodland camp--Evening visitors--The Hönefos-...

A difficult crossing--Again en route--Skögadal Sœter--Sœter accommodation--Splendid scenery--The Skögadals Elv--The mysterious bone--Mountain exploration--The pack horses--A sli...

Esmeralda at the lake--Our cadeau--The visitors--Disappointment--An Adonis--The silent visit--The old mill--A Norwegian fox--The Puru Rawnee’s fall--The forest scene--Zachariah’...

An English fisherman--The haunted mill--The tourist’s purchase--Noah’s good fortune--The Strand Fjord--A woman’s curiosity--The heroine of our book--A Norwegian seaman--The mist...

The Virgin Peak--Esmeralda in the Lera--A dripping Nereid--Heavy clouds--The Church Mountain--Wild reindeer--Where’s the tea?--Singular glacier--Valley of red sandstone--The Hun...

The velocipede--Roadside halt--Lovely scenery--Disappointed audience--The little gipsy--The lost pocket--The search--Gipsy lamentation--Amused peasant girls--Norwegian honesty--...

Christiania--Generous offer--Advice we do not take--The paper-viken fishermen--Christophersen’s--Norway, farewell--Donkeys’ accommodation--Want of feeling--Our steward--The gips...

Colonel Sinclair--Qvam church--Death of Sinclair--Monsieur le Capitaine--The Highflyer--The Hedals--Romantic legend--Antique mansion--The Kringelen--Kind reception--Warm welcome...

The new tent pole--What is indigestion?--Peasants at camp--A new friend--Holaker station--Norwegian honesty--Lœsje Vand--The tetteramengry--An unsolved mystery--The gipsy collap...

The wasps’ nest--Lom--Kind friends--Songs of Björnsen--The Prœsten’s ministration--The repulsed student--Beautiful valley--The two artists--The Bœver Elven--Rödsheim--The ravine...

Night alarm--The Puru Rawnee--Donkeys admired--Norwegian ponies--Our gipsy life--Norwegian flowers--Wild forest--The pipe of tobacco--Pictures of imagination--The crippled man--...