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 bigotry--How Lutheranism came in like a lion--The Last of the Barons--Author makes him bite the dust--Brief burial-service in use in South-western Norway--The Sörenskriver--Norwegian substitute for Doctors’ Commons--Grave ale--A priestly Samson--Olaf’s ship--A silent woman--Norwegian dialects--Artificial salmon-breeding--A piscatorial prevision pp. 29-47