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THE SKIGGEDAL FOSS—DAMSEL " YODLING." 177
Among otlier tilings lie told me of a waterfall which
he considered the finest in Norway, but of which no
mention is made by Murray or in the Road-book
published by Bohn: it is the Skiggedal Foss, which I
determined to visit if possible. At this station there
were German beds again, and in the morning cafe au
lay, as a wretched punster calls it.
I started by boat again, and, crossing the Fanne Fiord,
walked over the isthmus from Dvergsnaes to Süllesnaes.
It is a flat country, an alluvial deposit, partly moorland
and partly pastoral. At one part, the road, after an
abrupt turn, comes in a line with a broad grassy avenue
of remarkably park-like character. Far away in the
distance I heard a melody so wild and shrill that it
seemed scarcely possible to be produced by human voice;
but after walking about half a mile along the green
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avenue, I came upon the singer, a girl, who, amidst a
community of happy ruminating cows, was lying down
and warbling most wonderfully. Her face was turned
away from me, and as my steps were noiseless upon
the soft grass, I came quite near to lier, and lying
down, remained unheard and unseen, listening to her
singing. The old Greeks, who understood such matters
very well, represent the sirens with sweet voices as
well as pretty faces, and tell us that their voices were
the most potent with their victims. They were right:
there is a wonderful fascination in the tones of certain
voices, and this was one of them. I fell into a most
romantic and sentimental mood, without seeing the face
of the sweet warbler. She sang a kind of ranz de vaches;
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