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- Means of Communication, by Bernh. Andersen, Andr. M. Hansen and J. T. Sommerschild
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MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
ROADS.
Road traffic in former times was carried on in a manner similar
to that which may be seen to this day in out-of-the-way districts
and in the mountains. In the summer, it keeps to the bridle-paths
that run between the farms without much regard to level. In the
more frequented roads, the greatest obstacles are indeed removed;
but as there is no question of any proper road-bed, the damp
places and bogs occasion the greatest difficulties. In order to
avoid these and find firm ground, detours are rather made over
high hills. The roads, therefore, often lie high up the slopes,
Goods are carried up on pack-horses. Where opportunity offers,
boats are used across the lakes. — In the winter, on the other
hand, it is just over the low, damp parts that the road goes, along
the frozen bogs, rivers and lakes; and all heavy transport is done
at that season by sledge.
Even the most ancient laws from about the year 1100, contain
provisions for the keeping of the main roads where they have
run in previous times, for the maintenance of the bridges, for
annual clearing, etc. The road was to be so far cleared of trees,
that a man could ride in them with a spear lying across the
pommel of his saddle, without having the willow rings hanging
loosely on its ends brushed off, that is to say, rather more than
3 yards.
Real driving-roads for wheeled vehicles were not constructed
until later in Norway with its scattered population. The oldest is
probably the road from the Kongsberg Silver Mines to the Drammen
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