CHAPTER XXXV.

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 lake by moonlight--Early rising--Eisbod on the Bygdin Lake--The poet’s house--Vinje, the poet--The poetical mortgage--Pleasant acquaintance--Old Norwegian poetry--The reindeer hunter--Esmeralda condoned 404