A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . and I following, be-hind a pair of dark bays. Of course therewere a couple of drivers along but, as theycould not speak a word of English, they didnot count. Our route was up the valley of theLaera, a famous salmon river, that has beenmade convenient for the sportsmen bymeans of light iron bridges and ladders, sothey can reach with ease the best points forfishing. I was told that one man paid tenthousand dollars per annum for the fishingprivileges but I doubt the truth of the story,as it is too long a stream to be fished fromon
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . and I following, be-hind a pair of dark bays. Of course therewere a couple of drivers along but, as theycould not speak a word of English, they didnot count. Our route was up the valley of theLaera, a famous salmon river, that has beenmade convenient for the sportsmen bymeans of light iron bridges and ladders, sothey can reach with ease the best points forfishing. I was told that one man paid tenthousand dollars per annum for the fishingprivileges but I doubt the truth of the story,as it is too long a stream to be fished fromone locality, so it is probably let to severalparties for a sum total equal to that Husum, which is quite a resort fortrout fishing, begins the picturesque gorgecalled Svartegjel, after passing throughwhich, the valley broadens and soon we cameto the old stavekirke. Borgund Church datesfrom about 1150, but is first mentioned in1360. This kind of a building is called a**stavekirke* to distinguish it from churcheserected since the Reformation, which are. A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 89 built of logs laid horizontally. In fact it issaid that no stavekirkes were built after theReformation. In this kind of a building thewalls consist of corner posts connected bysills below and plates above, with the spacesbetween the posts filled in by vertical planks,mortised to each other and fitted intogrooves in the sills and plates. The plan, sofar as a difference of material allows, is thatof the Anglo-Norman church of the the rectangular body of the church isadded a square choir ending in a broad and lofty nave is separated fromthe low, narrow aisles by wooden the gabled roof of the nave rises asquare tower, ending in a slender spire. Thedragon-head enrichments of the gables re-semble that of a ships prow of Viking roof of the choir is lower, and iscrowned by a round turret with a conical the whole building runs a low ar-cad
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