CHAPTER VII.

A wolf-trap--The heather--Game and game-preserves--An optical delusion--Sumptuous entertainment--Visit to a Norwegian store-room--Petticoats--Curious picture of the Crucifixion--Fjord scenery--How the priest Brun was lost--A Sætersdal manse--Frightfully hospitable--Eider-down quilts--Costume of a Norwegian waiting-maid--The tartan in Norway--An ethnological inquiry--Personal characteristics--The sect of the Haugians--Nomad life in the far Norwegian valleys--Trug--Memorials of the Vikings--Female Bruin in a rage--How bears dispose of intruders--Mercantile marine of Norway--The Bad-hus--How to cook brigands--Winter clothing pp. 101-124