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CHAPTER XII.
A proud Norwegian beauty—Household charity a substitute for
poor-rates in Norway—The good people at Mork—The family
big box of the Norwegian farmer—The Lia Vand—Former
extent of the Nord Fjords glacier—Saeter life—A damsel at bay
—Collecting of the goats and cows — Cheese-making — The
supremacy of woman and the inferiority of the male sex at the
saeter—The head of the valley and the snow-fields—Difficulty
in selecting the pass—Climbing powers of Norwegian horses—
The Stiggevand and ice cascades of the Justedals Sneefond—
Grand and desolate scenery—Head of the Justedal—Evils ot
dining.
The valley of the Otta is very grand and desolate,
approaching in some parts to the grandeur of the
Romsdal. Much of the road passes through dark wild
woods of pine, with many fallen and shattered trunks
lying about at the feet of the living trees, giving to
the whole the primitive aspect of a new, unsettled
country. Hitherto, the valleys I have passed through
appear cultivated up to the limits of profitable fertility,
but here there appears to be much neglected land left
waste for want of population.
As I sat upon a boulder by the roadside, busily
occupied in making the diary of my last day’s
wandering, some people approached and passed, whom I
scarcely noticed ; then one of them stopped in front
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