1. His late Most Gracious Majesty Carl XV., King of Norway and Sweden (_Full page, facing Title_)
2. Breaking up Camp; Gipsy pocket, and loaded donkey 14
3. The gipsies’ Norwegian song--ornamental bordure 17 and 18
9. Jeg maa gaae til bunden, I must go to the bottom 81
10. Der gaae er dampen, There goes the steamer 82
14. Camp at Leaning Stone, Sjiriaglns 262
15. Troldtinderne, Magicians’ or Witches’ Peaks (_Full page, facing_) 271
16. The English gipsies’ camp at Veblungsnœs (_Ditto_) 287
20. Gröd stick, spoon, and bowl, Leirdalen 367
22. Kirken (Church Mountain), from Gravdal 377
23. The ice cliff, Storbeatind Glacier 381
25. Lusehaug Bro, Utladal: restive donkeys 390
26. View of Melkedalstind from the Valley of Skögadal, Skögadals Elv 406
27. Melkedals Nedre Vand, with gipsy camp on the lake shore 411
28. Norwegian Tourist Club Châlet, Tvindehougen, Lake Tyen 421
32. The last camp of the English gipsies in Norway, Christiania Fjord 504
33. Ole Halvorsen of Rödsheim, our guide 514
“Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat, ac molliat.”
There is no grief time does not lessen and soften.
Since the succeeding pages were written, Norway and Sweden have mourned the death of their King, Carl XV., at Malmoe, on the 18th September, 1872.
The dedication of this work is, therefore, with the kind and special permission of his present Majesty, King Oscar II., inscribed “In Memoriam.” Thus the work opens to the reader with a shadow of melancholy; for, in our experience, few kings have had the love and affection of their subjects in a greater degree.
One memorable event marked the close of his late Majesty’s reign, as if to illumine the last sands of the hour-glass of his life--the millennial period of the unity of Norway as one kingdom was accomplished on the 19th July, 1872.
A thousand years had elapsed since Harald Haarfager (the Fair Hair) gained the battle of Hafsfjord, and united Norway under one crown.[1]
At Hafsfjord, by a strange coincidence, King Harald Haarfager, having reigned, it is said, from about 861 to 931, was buried, according to the ancient sagas, near the town of Haugesund, not far from the scene of his memorable victory, the last of a series of conquests which gave to Norway one king.