Category: Adventure
The glamour of Norwegian scenery--A gentle angler in a passion--The stirring of the blood--A bachelor’s wild scream of liberty--What marriage brings a salmon-fisher to--Away, for the land of the mountain and the flood--“Little” circle sailing--The Arctic shark--Advantages of g...
A port-wine pilgrimage--The perfection of a landlady--Old superstitious customs--Levelling effects of unlevelled roads--A blank day--Sketch of an interior after Ostade--A would-...
32. CHAPTER XVI.A grumble about roads--Mr. Dahl’s caravansary--“You’ve waked me too early”--St. Halvard--Professor Munck--Book-keeping by copper kettles--Norwegian society--Fresh milk--Talk abo...
29. CHAPTER XIII.Fairy lore--A wrestle for a drinking horn--Merry time is Yule time--Head-dresses at Haga--Old church at Naes--Good trout-fishing country--A wealthy milkmaid--Horses subject to i...
27. CHAPTER XI.From Fairy lore to Nature lore--Charming idea for stout folk--Action and reaction--Election day at Bergen--A laxstie--A careless pilot--Discourse about opera-glasses--Paulsen Ve...
28. CHAPTER XII.The lonely châlet--The spirit of the hills--Bauta stones--Battlefields older than history--Sand falls--Thorsten Fretum’s hospitality--Norwegian roads--The good wife--Author exec...
20. CHAPTER IV.Mine host at Dal--Bernadotte’s prudent benignity--Taxing the bill of costs--Hurrah for the mountains--Whetstones--Antique wooden church--A wild country--“Raven depth”--How the E...
31. CHAPTER XV.Papa’s birthday--A Fellow’s sigh--To Kongsberg--A word for waterproofs--Dram Elv--A relic of the shooting season--How precipitous roads are formed in Norway--The author does som...
19. CHAPTER III.A poet in full uniform--The young lady in gauntlet gloves again--Church in a cave--Muscular Christianity in the sixteenth century--A miracle of light and melody--A romance of bi...
26. CHAPTER X.The young Prince of Orange--A crazy bridge--At the foot of the mighty Vöring Foss--A horse coming downstairs--Mountain greetings--The smoke-barometer--The Vöring waterfall--Nati...
23. CHAPTER VII.An oasis--Unkempt waiters--Improving an opportunity--The church in the wilderness--Household words--A sudden squall--The pools of the Quenna--Airy lodgings--Weather-bound--A Nor...
17. CHAPTER I.The glamour of Norwegian scenery--A gentle angler in a passion--The stirring of the blood--A bachelor’s wild scream of liberty--What marriage brings a salmon-fisher to--Away, fo...
22. CHAPTER VI.No cream--The valley of the Maan--The Riukan foss--German students--A bridge of dread--The course of true love never did run smooth--Fine misty weather for trout--Salted provisi...
24. CHAPTER VIII.Northwards--Social colts--The horse shepherd--The tired traveller’s sweet restorer, tea--Troll-work--Snow Macadam--Otter hunting in Norway--Normaends Laagen--A vision of reindee...
25. CHAPTER IX.The way to cure a cold--Author shoots some dotterel--Pit-fall for reindeer--How mountains look in mountain air--A natural terrace--The meeting of the waters--A phantom of deligh...
21. CHAPTER V.A lone farm-house--A scandal against the God Thor--The headquarters of Scandinavian fairy lore--The legend of Dyrë Vo--A deep pool--A hint for alternate ploughboys--Wild goose g...
18. CHAPTER II.Disappointed fishermen--A formidable diver--Arendal, the Norwegian Venice--A vocabulary at fault--Ship-building--The Norwegian Seaboard--Sandefjord, the Norwegian Brighton--A co...
10. CHAPTER X.The young Prince of Orange--A crazy bridge--At the foot of the mighty Vöring Foss--A horse coming downstairs--Mountain greetings--The smoke-barometer--The Vöring waterfall--Nati...
14. CHAPTER XIV.A port-wine pilgrimage--The perfection of a landlady--Old superstitious customs--Levelling effects of unlevelled roads--A blank day--Sketch of an interior after Ostade--A would-...
12. CHAPTER XII.The lonely châlet--The Spirit of the hills--Bauta-stones--Battlefields older than history--Sand-falls--Thorsten Fretum’s hospitality--Norwegian roads--The good wife--Author exec...
11. CHAPTER XI.From Fairy-lore to Nature-lore--Charming idea for stout folk--Action and reaction--Election-day at Bergen--A laxstie--A careless pilot--Discourse about opera-glasses--Paulsen Ve...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Fairy-lore--A wrestle for a drinking-horn--Merry time is Yule time--Head-dresses at Haga--Old church at Naes--Good trout-fishing country--A wealthy milkmaid--Horses subject to i...
16. CHAPTER XVI.A grumble about roads--Mr. Dahl’s caravansary--“You’ve waked me too early”--St. Halvard--Professor Munck--Book-keeping by copper kettles--Norwegian society--Fresh milk--Talk abo...
3. CHAPTER III.A poet in full uniform--The young lady in gauntlet gloves again--Church in a cave--Muscular Christianity in the sixteenth century--A miracle of light and melody--A romance of bi...
15. CHAPTER XV.Papa’s birthday--A Fellow’s sigh--To Kongsberg--A word for waterproofs--Dram Elv--A relic of the shooting season--How precipitous roads are formed in Norway--The author does som...
1. CHAPTER I.The glamour of Norwegian scenery--A gentle angler in a passion--The stirring of the blood--A bachelor’s wild scream of liberty--What marriage brings a salmon-fisher to--Away, fo...
5. CHAPTER V.A lone farm-house--A scandal against the God Thor--The headquarters of Scandinavian fairy-lore--The legend of Dyrë Vo--A deep pool--A hint for alternate ploughboys--Wild goose g...
4. CHAPTER IV.Mine host at Dal--Bernadotte’s prudent benignity--Taxing the bill of costs--Hurrah for the mountains--Whetstones--Antique wooden church--A wild country--“Raven depth”--How the E...
6. CHAPTER VI.No cream--The valley of the Maan--The Riukan foss--German students--A bridge of dread--The course of true love never did run smooth--Fine misty weather for trout--Salted provisi...
9. CHAPTER IX.The way to cure a cold--Author shoots some dotterel--Pit-fall for reindeer--How mountains look in mountain air--A natural terrace--The meeting of the waters--A phantom of deligh...
7. CHAPTER VII.An oasis--Unkempt waiters--Improving an opportunity--The church in the wilderness--Household words--A sudden squall--The pools of the Quenna--Airy lodgings--Weather-bound--A Nor...
2. CHAPTER II.Disappointed fishermen--A formidable diver--Arendal, the Norwegian Venice--A vocabulary at fault--Ship-building--The Norwegian Seaboard--Sandefjord, the Norwegian Brighton--A co...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Northwards--Social colts--The horse shepherd--The tired traveller’s sweet restorer, tea--Troll-work--Snow Macadam--Otter hunting in Norway--Normaends Laagen--A vision of reindee...