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imports, the island was once the site of a monastery, founded in
1028, of which the lower part of a round tower is now the only
relic. Count Peter Griffenfetd (P. Schumacher), the minister of
Christian V., was confined in a cell here from 1680 to 1698, and
shortly after his release died at Throndhjem. The island is
described by Victor Hugo in his ‘llan d’lslande’. The walls of the
small fortress which now stands here command a beautiful view,
and contain some interesting old guns and gun-carriages. On the
S.W. side is a small lighthouse.
The Excursion to the two falls of the Kid near the gaard of Leren,
5 Kil. south of Throndhjem, is picturesque, hut may he omitted if the
traveller’s time is limited. We follow the road leading from the suburb
of Baklandet (p. 221), afterwards turning to the left. A good walker
requires 4 hrs. there and back. In wet weather the last part of the road
is unpleasant. (Carriage with one horse, there and back 8, with 2 horses,
12 kr.) The lower or Lille Lerfos is 80 ft. high. The upper or Store
Lerfos, though higher, is broken by a mass of rock about halfway
across. . The best survey of it is obtained from one of the windows in
the saw-mill overhanging the seething waters on the right bank (a
somewhat rough path descends to the foot of the fall). The path from the
lower to the upper fall is not easy to find. If only one is visited, the
upper fall should be chosen.
An Excursion to the Sælbo-Sjø takes two days. On the first day
we go by railway to Heimdal (p. 216), and walk thence to Teigen or drive
(skvds - station at Esp, 2 Kil. distant) to Brettun (17 Kil., pay for 21),
hot’li situated at the W. end of the Sælbo-Sjø or Selbu-Sjø (525 ft.),
a line sheet of water, 29 Kil. (18 Engl. 31.) in length, on which a small
steamboat plies five times weekly in summer. At the S.E. end of
the lake, near the church ot Swlbo, lie Marieborg and the Scclbo
Sanatorium (well spoken of , ‘pens’, from 50 kr. a month). — From Sælbo a
road ascends the pretty and well-tilled Tydal. In the winter of 1718 the
greater part of the Swedish army under General Armfelt was frozen to
death on the Tydalsfjelde when on their retreat from Throndhjem.
From Throndhjem to Storlien (Östersund,Stockholm), 106 Kil.
(66 Engl. IH railway( Merakerbanejin 43/4hrs. (fares 5kr. 84, 3 kr.
46 0.). The station lies to the N. of the town, by the harbonr,
which the line crosses. — The train passes the church of Lade on
the left, and beyond (3 Kil.) Leangen the lunatic asylum of
Rot-void, also on the left. Soon after it reaches the fjord, here called
the Strindenfjord, farther on the Stjerdalsfjord. 7 Kil. Ranheim;
15 Kil. Malvik; 23 Kil. Hommelviken (Inn, small), the centre of a
considerable trade in timber. A road, with skyds-stations, leads
hence via (12 Kil.) Viken to (12 Kil.) Høiby, on the Sælbo-Sjø.
The train now passes through a short tunnel, and reaches —
32 Kil. (20 Engl. M.) Hell (telegraph-station), at the month
of the Stjørdals-Elo, across which a bridge leads to the
skyds-station of Sandferhus on the opposite bank. The line now runs
inland, along the left bank of the Stjørdals-Elv. 42 Kil. Hegre,
near the confluence of the Forra, which descends from the N., with
the Størdals-Elv. 57 Kil. Floren ; 72 Kil. Gudaa (275 ft.), where
the Reinaa is crossed. The train passes through a tunnel and
ascends rapidly, crossing the Stjørdals-Elv, to —
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