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 influenza--A change-house library--An historical calculation--The great national festival--Author threatens, but relents--A field-day among the ducks--Gulsvig--Family plate--A nurse of ninety years--The Sölje--The little fat grey man--A capital scene for a picture--An amazing story--As true as I sit here--The goat mother--Are there no Tusser now-a-days?--Uninvited guests--An amicable conversation about things in general--Hans saves his shirt--The cosmopolitan spirit of fairy-lore--Adam of Bremen pp. 215-241