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--National characteristics--Paddy’s estimate of the Giant’s Causeway--Meteoric water--New illustrations of old slanders--How the Prince of Orange did homage to the glories of nature--Author crosses the lake Eidsfjord--Falls in with an English yacht and Oxonians--An innkeeper’s story about the Prince of Orange--Salmonia--General aspect of a Norwegian Fjord--Author arrives at Utne--Finds himself in pleasant quarters--No charge for wax-lights--Christian names in Thelemarken--Female attire--A query for Sir Bulwer Lytton--Physiognomy of the Thelemarken peasants--Roving Englishmen--Christiania newspapers--The Crown Prince--Historical associations of Utne--The obsequies of Sea Kings--Norwegian gipsies pp. 142-160