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triumphantly passed the ordeal of Torghatten, my portrait
of which was verified even in details. The
Hestmand also, but I had not made him quite tall
enough; still he passed muster, especially as I had
erred on the side of modesty. When, however, we
came to the “Seven Sisters,” I was cruelly
confounded in the manner already narrated. The
case of the Sisters was trying enough, seeing that
my justification was so long delayed; but that of
the Kraken was still worse, as he did not appear
at all.
The long low ridges of rock, that formed the
coils of the serpent I saw in 1856, were there in
countless numbers, but they were motionless.
There was no continuous night and day sunshine
glaring upon them now, to heat their surfaces and
cause the atmospheric fluctuations, the distortions of
unequal refraction, and the undercutting of the
long southward slopes of the taller island by total
reflection, which produced the monster’s gaping
mouth. The cold, drizzling, misty, windy weather
had destroyed all the conditions upon which these
optical illusions depend.
In spite of this, I have republished my original
explanation of the monster’s origin in the new
edition of ‘Through Norway with a Knapsack,’ and
have added thereto a portrait, drawn from memory,
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