. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. be rankedas a genre painter, as it is in this branchof painting that he has accomplished hisbest and most lasting work. S. H. N ORWEGIAN PEASANTARCHITECTURE. BYWILLIAM PETERS. GOOD-NIGHT nV EASTMAN JOHNSON Most travellers in Norway must havenoticed that almost every man wears ashort knife on his left hip. In someplaces it is the custom to wear this knifeon the right side, where, according toarchaeologists, swords were worn duringthe Bronze period. For close combat thisseems to be a more convenient place tohave it. It is sa
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. be rankedas a genre painter, as it is in this branchof painting that he has accomplished hisbest and most lasting work. S. H. N ORWEGIAN PEASANTARCHITECTURE. BYWILLIAM PETERS. GOOD-NIGHT nV EASTMAN JOHNSON Most travellers in Norway must havenoticed that almost every man wears ashort knife on his left hip. In someplaces it is the custom to wear this knifeon the right side, where, according toarchaeologists, swords were worn duringthe Bronze period. For close combat thisseems to be a more convenient place tohave it. It is said that in olden timesthe Norwegians were quick to take to theknife, but in our days the conditions arenot so dangerous as they were fourhundred years ago, although it doeshappen even nowadays that a meetingwith the brown bear in the woods necessi-tates immediate recourse to the short knifeas the sole means of defence. In daily work the knife is nearly asnecessary as the right hand, and as soonas the Norwegian boy has arrived at the III Norwegian Peasant Architecture. STORE HOUSE IN SATERSDAL DRAWN BY WILLIAM PETERS age when his dignity is expressed by an enormouspair of trousers, the knife is also there. His firstmedium for expressing his ideas is not the leadpencil or the pen, but the knife. When tendingthe cattle in the wood he whiles away the time bycutting pipes or the national long Lur forplaying the popular tunes, or he cuts a little boxwith secret locks, decorated with the primitiveornaments he has seen in hishome, for safeguarding hismodest valuables. Woodcarving is certainlythe most popular art in Nor-way, and has been so from timeimmemorial. We can see thison the 8th or 9th centuryViking ship which was dis-covered last year; the stemand other parts are beautifullydecorated by carved orna-ments. The wooden churchesdating from the i ith and 12thcenturies also show rich workof the same kind, especiallythe doors, which are framedby carved plait-work, dragonstwined togeth
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