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Church adjoining. It is now the property of the Antiquarian Society
of Christiania. Every part of it is curious and interesting: the
external passages, the numerous gables, the shingle-covered roofs and
walls, surmounted with dragons’ heads, the lofty portal, the
elaborate ornamentation consisting of two entwined snakes, and the
almost quite dark and windowless interior. On the W. door are
the Runic inscriptions —
Thorir raist runar thissar than Olau misso.
(Thorer wrote these lines on St. Olafs fair.)
Thittai kirkia a kirkiuvelli.
(This church in the church-ground.)
The church is described in the ‘Turistbref från en Resa i Norge’
by Finn (Stockholm, 1876; pp. 93 et seq.), in ‘Fahrten durch
Norwegen" by Hartung Dulk (Stuttgart, 1877; pp. 232 et seq.’),
and in several English works on Norway. Comp, the description of
the similar church of Hitterdal, given at p. 22.
The traveller is recommended to follow the old road from
Borgund Church to Ilusum, a walk of 1/2 hr., while his carriole takes
fully as long to descend the ravine by the circuitous new road; hut
before doing so, he should visit the entrance to the ravine, where
the wild and imposing scenery is enhanced by a fine waterfall
(Svartegelfos). The high-road descends thence in windings through
the picturesque ravine. Immediately above Husum is another
picturesque waterfall of the Lærdals-EIv (Holgruten). — The route
now enters the district contained in the Map at p. 100.
13 Kil. Husum (1070 ft.; picturesque Hotel, well spoken of),
being the central point of the finest scenery of the valley, is a good
starting-point for excursions. Farther on lies another tolerably
level basin, once likewise the bed of a lake, with the Øigaard,
Koama, Haugen, and other farms. Immediately beyond it the
road enters another grand ravine, which the old road avoided
by traversing the dangerous Galder (‘cliffs’, ‘steep slopes’) to the
right. The new road crosses the river and skirts the overhanging
rocks close to its hank, where the water has worn a number of more
or less perfect lJattegryder , or ‘giant cauldrons’, showing distinctly
how much higher the level of the torrent must once have been.
At one point, not far below Husum, the old bed of the stream has
even been utilised for the passage of the road, for which part of a
‘giant cauldron’ has also been hewn away, while the torrent now
thunders along 100 ft. below. On the N. side of the ravine are
Gaarden Galderne and the Store Soknefos, a strange spot for human
habitations. — As soon as the ravine expands we come in sight of
Gaarden Saltun, situated on the huge deposits (Skred) of a
mountain-torrent. The valley is still confined between lofty and
precipitous rocks. The road crosses the Lærdals-EIv and follows its right
hank; it then intersects the deposits of the Jutul-El v and traverses
a broader part of the valley, from which the Opdal, closed by the
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