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60 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
Schneehoetten is visible near Stuen, about fifteen
miles below the place where Murray speaks of it. It is
a more picturesque object from this point than from the
Dovre Fjeld. A number of other snowy peaks are also
visible.
The women hereabouts wear a sort of cuirass of
printed cotton, the black silk cap or lue, that has
prevailed all the way from Christiania, and short white
sleeves. The boys have strange skull-caps, with
immense, straight, square peaks, which, projecting stiffly
forward, just balance the long, straight, tow-coloured
hair that hangs correspondingly behind. The men wear
red nightcaps when at work in the fields, but on great
occasions they are surmounted by beaver hats, evidently
inherited with the farms, and having the large crown,
hollow walls, and brim turned-up at the sides, of the
days of Beau Brummel and the Prince Regent.
I dined at Stuen in the kitchen, where four girls were
dining at the same time. Between each two was a
wooden bowl containing a sort of thin porridge or broth ;
they sat at arm’s length from the bowl, and breaking off a
chip of fladbröd, which they broke again and made into
a bunch of several layers, they stretched out their arms
and dipped the fladbröd into the curd; then describing a
long sweeping curve with the hand, put the bunch of
fladbröd into the mouth, where it disappeared. They ail
made precisely the same movements; yet I saAv no reason
why they should sit so very far from the bowl, or why
the hand should not be brought straight to the mouth :
probably it is a matter of etiquette and good-breeding ;
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