FRAIL BRIDGE ON THE ROAD TO THE VÖRING FOSS.
[i]
THE OXONIAN
IN
THELEMARKEN;
OR,
NOTES OF TRAVEL IN SOUTH-WESTERN NORWAY
IN THE SUMMERS OF 1856 AND 1857.
WITH GLANCES AT THE LEGENDARY LORE
OF THAT DISTRICT.
BY
THE REV. FREDERICK METCALFE, M.A.,
FELLOW OF LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD,
AUTHOR OF
“THE OXONIAN IN NORWAY.”
“Auf den Bergen ist Freiheit; der Hauch der Grüfte,
Steigt nicht hinauf in die schönen Lüfte,
Die Welt is volkommen überall,
Wo der Mensch nicht hinein kömmt mit seiner Qual.”
“Tu nidum servas: ego laudo ruris amœni
Rivos, et musco circumlita saxa, nemusque.”
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,
SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1858.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
[ii]
LONDON:
SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS,
CHANDOS STREET.
[iii]
CONTENTS TO VOL. II.
CHAPTER I.
Danish custom-house officials—Home sickness—The ladies of Denmark—Ethnological—Swedenand its forests—Influence ofclimate on Peoples—The French court—Norwegian and Danishpronunciation—The Swiss of the North—An instance ofNorwegian slowness—Ingemann, the Walter Scott of Denmark—HansChristian Andersen—Genius in rags—The level plains ofZealand—Danish cattle—He who moveth his neighbour’s landmark—Beechgroves—The tomb of the great Valdemar—Thetwo queens—The Probst of Ringstedt—Wicked King Abel—Mormonismin Jutland—Roeskilde—Its cathedral—The Semiramisof the North—Frederick IV.—Unfortunate Matildapp. 1-17
CHAPTER II.
Copenhagen—Children of Amak—Brisk bargaining—Specimens ofhorn fish—Unlucky dogs—Thorwaldsen’s museum—The RoyalAssistenz House—Going, gone—The Ethnographic Museum—Aninexorable professor—Lionizes a big-wig—The stone periodin Denmark—England’s want of an ethnographical collection—Alight struck from the flint in the stag’s head—The goldperiod—A Scandinavian idol’s cestus—How dead chieftainscheated fashion—Antiquities in gold—Wooden almanacks—Bridalcrowns—Scandinavian antiquities peculiarly interestingto Englishmen—Four thousand a year in return for soft sawder—Streetscenes in Copenhagen—Thorwaldsen’s colossal statues—Blushesfor Oxford and Cambridge—A Danish comedy—Where[iv]the warriors restpp. 18-38
CHAPTER III.
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