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16 THROUGH NORWAY WITH A KNAPSACK.
an understanding speedily, and then we found him a
most polite and attentive host.
On our return from the gardens at about midnight,
we found a large party just dispersing, and on inquiry,
Ave were informed that a meeting had been held to
listen to a reading of the English newspapers brought
by the ship that carried us. Such meetings are held
periodically here, when our host, who speaks English
purely and fluently, reads the English papers,
translating as he proceeds. English politics, and all the
incidents of our social progress are carefully and
intelligently studied by the Norwegians, who seem to be
quite as familiar with the names and proceedings of our
leading statesmen, as they are with those of the members
of their own Storthing, or parliament.
On the morning of the following day I visit some
more of the regular guide-book lions, which a
conscientious tourist who knows his duty towards his
Murray feels bound to do exhaustively. There are
two or three churches of importance, besides a
marketplace and a bronze fountain, as well as the other matters
before mentioned. The Norwegian Church is Lutheran,
and the churches in their internal arrangements
indicate Luther’s courage. Here, as in so many parts of
Germany,—especially in old, fighting, Protestant
Nuremberg,—they have not thought it necessary to
mutilate the artistic remains of the old church : the
pictures, statues, and gilding are allowed to remain; for
these reformers were evidently in no fear of being
converted by the sight of a Madonna or a candlestick.
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