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requirements, bade me welcome, supplied me with
flad-bröd and a bowl of butter, and then joined the group
who were dipping their spoons into a pile of " Roman
cement" dabbed down upon a board. On only one
occasion have I been asked to partake of the cement, though
I have usually found that it is the chief article of food.
I suspect that fladbröd and smöer is considered more of a
delicacy; especially as I have sometimes seen the bonder
and his wife sitting apart and partaking of these.
While wandering about in search of a lodging I saw
several very remarkably carved cottages, some of them
most elaborate. I made a sketch of the front of one of
them, an engraving from which will be seen on the
title-page. They are all of that general top-heavy design,
but vary considerably in detail; they are very old, and
not used as residences, but for the storing of hay : the
hay is put in at the door of the upper story, and taken
out from the lower. Most of the houses hereabouts
have some kind of carving about them, but those devoted
to human residence have the smallest amount of such
outside decoration.
1 slept in a comfortable straw bed in the state
apartment upstairs, the panels of which were decorated with
paintings of cities in gaudy colours.
My next destination was across a roadless country to
the Mjüs Vand, and from thence to Holvik, situated at
the easternmost end of this lake, and at the mouth of
the valley through which flows the river that connects
the two lakes of the Mjös Vand and the Tin Sjöen.
This river, encountering a precipice on its way, pitches
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