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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ed on poles, which were joined at thetop with considerable skill. . . . The owners of thetent were married in winter, and had lots of gear, silverornaments, bone contrivances, one of which was forweaving coloured woollen bands; baskets of ingeniousshapes, very well made of birch and fir roots variouslycoloured. They all wore long knives, and the newlymarried couple smoked and drank coffee at intervals allday. Next morning found the Lapps getting up, the oldwoman licking the dishes clean for breakfast, the fathersmoking whilst putting on the shoes ,of his youngestchild. He first spread out a handful of fine hay madefrom a particular kind of grass, and then he tossed iton the stones beside the fire till it was perfectly dry.Then the boy was seized by his leg and laid on his back,while foot and hay was crammed and stuffed into aminiature Lapp shoe. It was a work of some difficultyto make all fit nicely, and bind it all neatly round theleg and the leather leggings. They made a good group.
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IHE FJEl.D LAVPEK OK THK NO-MAN S-LAXD THAT lUVIUKS NORWAYFROM SWEDEN A PICTURESQUE GROUP 245 the father and son, and a black puppy that would nibblethe boys rosy cheeks as he lay sprawling on the ground.The Lapps are small of stature, very hardy, good sturdywalkers, utterly careless about wind and weather. Theyare not free with their goods; they are not hospitable.No Lapp ever offered me milk or coffee when he helpedhimself. They gave what I asked for, and I paid;but other hill-folk offer their best to the stranger. From a topographical point of view, Norway does notseem to have any natural boundaries, in a general sense,on her land side. It was proved to be utterly impossibleto draw a reasonable frontier-line that really followed theparting of the watersheds. No marked division exists, nochain of mountains, no separating keel. It has neverbeen a definite natural line that has divided Norway fromher neighbours on the east. It has been a band ofdesert land, some hundreds of miles in w

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