CHAPTER XV.

Up Steindalen--Thorsten Thormundson--Very near--Author’s guide gives him a piece of agreeable information--Crooked paths--Raune bottom--A great ant-hill--Author turns rainbow manufacturer--No one at home--The mill goblin helps author out of a dilemma--A tiny Husman--The dangers attending confirmation in Norway--The leper hospital at Bergen--A melancholy walk--Different forms of leprosy--The disease found to be hereditary--Terrible instances of its effects--Ethnological particulars respecting--The Bergen Museum--Delicate little monsters--Fairy pots--The best bookseller in Bergen--Character of the Danish language--Instance of Norwegian good-nature--New flames and old fiddles pp. 293-315