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Removal of Family to Stockholm 57
young to accept so responsible a position,
especially as she had not yet reached any clear
view as to the religious problems which filled
her mind. But her dream and endeavour, from
this time on, was to found a Folk-highschool
for girls in her own home county, and for
years she studied and laboured in prepara-
tion for this. She associated closely with the
peasants trying to get a true understanding
of their view of life, their customs, and habits.
She collected sagas, folk-tales, and proverbs,
embracing the opportunity at the same time
to collect old-fashioned articles of peasant
make for Arthur Hazelius,' whose new move-
ment for a National Folk Museum deeply
interested her.
Ellen's visit to the Folk-highschools in
Denmark was made as the result of the
above-mentioned offer, and also because the
great importance of such institutions had
been impressed upon her, as upon other
Swedes, by Bjomstjeme Bjomson in his lec-
tures in Stockholm, in December, 1872, and
January, 1873; on Gmndtvig, Vergeland, the
Sistine Chapel, etc. Ellen had attended
every lecture and afterwards written them
I Founder of Skansen, the out-door Museum and National
Park at Stockholm.—Translator's footnote.
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