Identifier: norwayitsfjords00wyll (find matches)
Title: Norway and its fjords
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wyllie, M. A
Subjects: Norway -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Methuen & Co. New York, J. Pott & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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. Panels, illustrating fairy tales, run round the room over ahandsomely carved dado, each panel being framed by anextraordinary pattern of threaded beads. The ceiling iscarved in a geometrical wheel pattern, intersected withzebra-marked beams. The chairs are also fantastic,rather Chippendale in pattern, but with a great bird, witherected crest, forming the top of the back. The crest isrepeated again on the left-hand front leg. This is anupper room and should not be missed. Downstairs, too,are many interesting objects—tankards, the old-fashionedcarved wooden irons, queer candlesticks, and some goodpictures. From this hotel the road still leads upwards, connectingthe Frognersaeter with Holmenkollen, the Keiser WilhelmsVeien it is called, which runs almost all the way throughthe woods to the saeter, which last was purchased by thecity of Christiania. The former Villa Heftye contains acollection of Norse antiquities. There are a few oldNorwegian timber buildings, from Telemarken and the
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A NORWEGIAN WINTER 35 Hallingdal, but this is, as Herodotus remarks, As I haveheard say. We were contented with Holmenkollen andits view, and worked quietly on till the hour approachedfor the dinner launch at Pipervik, which waits for no man,not even the captain. In winter, when the fjord is frozen, which, according tothe chart, it invariably is, every house in Christiania onfete days is forsaken. All the people are gathered eitherat the top or the bottom of the Holmenkolbakken,assembled in their thousands on their ski and in sledgesto witness the sports. To us, our hostess remarked, the winter is more interesting. We then have hundredsof people, and the air is so pure, The same sentimentsexactly as are breathed by Bjornson in a sketch on hiscountry and people, written for Harpers Magazine, inwhich he aveis that a journey through the country inwinter is better than the ordinary summer touring. Hemaintains that the people are then seen to advantage,and that such a journey is better for

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