The Oxonian in Thelemarken, volume 2 (of 2) or, Notes of travel in south-western Norway in the summers of 1856 and 1857. With glances at the legendary lore of that district.

CHAPTER XVI.

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The safest day in the year for travelling--A collision--Lighthouses on the Norwegian coast--Olaf the Holy and the necromancers--The cathedral at Stavanger--A Norwegian M.P.--Broad sheets--The great man unbends--Jaederen’s Rev--Old friends at Christiansand--Too fast--The Lammer’s schism--Its beneficial effects--Roman Catholic Propagandism--A thievish archbishop--Historical memoranda at Frederickshal--The Falls of the Glommen--A Department of Woods and Forests established in Norway--Conflagrations--A problem, and how it was solved--Author sees a mirage--Homewards pp. 316-327

THE OXONIAN IN THELEMARKEN.