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slid down from the neighbourhood of the farm I
have sketched, it would have taken a clear leap
over the precipice into the water, or at most would
merely have touched some projections and then
bounded farther forward.
Among the curiosities of these lakes, duly
described by Captain Dahl, is “ St. Olaf’s serpent,”
near to Sylte, the station situated where the
Val-dalen opens into the Nordalsfjord.
The saint was in his yacht sailing up this ijord
on his way to a dinner party, and was hurrying
somewhat, lest he should be late and the soup cold.
The sea serpent was also proceeding in the same
direction, and was so impertinent as to cross the
bow of the yacht and interfere with its progress.
The saint remonstrated with the beast, but in vain,
and finally lost his temper, leaned over the bow of
the boat, picked up the scaly monster, and with
miraculous energy flung it against the opposite
rock so forcibly that it became imbedded there,
and still remains. It is about 500 feet long, in
several waving folds, and visible even at some
miles’ distance.
Superstitious geologists contend that it is a
contorted vein of quartz cropping out of the face of a
gneissic rock ; but these presumptuous iconoclasts
having attempted to remove so many other gene-
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