HOME INDUSTRIES AND CRAFTS At a very early date in the progress of European civilisation Norwegian handicrafts of every kind had attained a high degree of artistic sense. Wood carving and the application of graceful designs for the decoration of arms and domestic utensils are wonderfully exemplified in the discoveries made in connection with the unearthing of the famous «Oseberg» viking ship, and now exhibited at the Historical Museum, and in the Folk Museum at Bygd@y just outside the capital. The Folk Museum, housed in old buildings transported from their original sites and re-erected in a lovely setting of meadows and pine woods, is among the most interesting «sights» Norway has for the visitor. Here are gathered clothing, furniture, tapestry — every conceivable form of the many crafts which so effectively reveal the inherent talents of a nation. They are displayed in the rooms of the old houses and huts in such a way that the cold atmosphere of an ordinary museum is wholly dispelled. They are seen as though the hands that carved and wrought and spun and wove them generations ago had merely laid them aside for a moment. Norwegian arts and crafts reached the peak of 181