Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-03
,.,,sr FARMS AND NOUN
~ SIMMER DIARIES.
rrwAEEMAH'S WAHOERlNGS,
nv. ofcontemplation of Seen
o..od and Impressive-Moun-
aims Reaching Above
the Clouds.

E Nav. 10. 1S93.-Travelers in
xbo have written of Norway
~ .,,nle have invariably spoken of
y .ss,-,steristic subjects, but in so
Y /. m,uper as TO pique and never 10
Y. 4. readers interest. These are
NJ. been termed for bet
= ~ N .Eagle-nest farms and the
~ q Fountain summer diaries.
s, |, / know no traveller writing
.l,srugae has ever visited the for
~ rhile a few have actually seen
4, Environment and the strange
,l.,lt life at the same have never
l,,uate.y described.
n saiss along the Norwegian coast
l .-rsd 10 the Lofolen islands,
A AZ Z close.y oDseryant OF the main
s.aefy. and particularly If pow.
fAzass is used, viii be surprised
n nepbgr OF utterly lonely and
N habltations, seemingly perched
"A Me- gray crags at great attitudes
=, beiwcen sea and SKY. The larg-
s.S,r Of these are n leasit 300
,isre the sea. To the eye is seems
v,ble that place even for their
~ stus could be secured. The pict-
N = ,iWays the same. A line Of back
X mands Of feet high; u dent Of
I'm d depression of misty blue
l|4 I'M speck Of home is built; and
r WI and sonhre crags behind
~ 80, and above and beyond these
VI NV eltninr fields.
N ,'-,.s rom distance their eerie To-
4 M the ragged huddlel struct-
mn often surround the main
A i,.fe. rs,all the nest of the en-
y ~ elge of bectling crngs, they
4, somp ID be called "caGle-nost
80 Sn,imes the eve will follow
NJ. m "a assure descending from
" I,Nrijons TO cayernous. rock
.,-r,s n beside the water. In this
~ iSs boat house may be seen
~. IS n.ks; and somewhere near O
isri, 1a-llke line will trail upward
NJ y no darkcning depths. This
N, AL The eagle-nest farmer is u
es,.ss ioo or has this means Of com
-~llfa with the outer world: but
,ssehes liz bome-perrh above:
N \ uhdsts in his desointe hahiia-
m, and what manner Of folk these
Is En fna cortentment in lives of
gless solitude. danger and nature
|ri,d sustenance. were coniectures
mi haunted me until | found means
nm
|ltayp ihe elf walls Of the larger and
rr cords which penetrate the main
Il from tue coast. the eagle-nest farms
l ttpa more humorous than along the
Ne coast This is particularly true
I y5rions OF the Hardanger, Sogne,
y lSr6aihjem tiords. In the lOrdly
'sa Ford. a branch of the Aurlands
sn4 Of tha Sogne. and in a few in
lisN IN the Throndhjem, they are at
Il bity attitudes that they appear like
ie1 q snow or ice. or Ike posing
u upon edges Of the cliff. | had no
h few located at prodigious heights
usea Siyve and Holmcnas, on the
rism wall-crests of this ford. which,
ne way beyond Dyrsdal to the water
Z q the Itre Baaken that tumhles
N feet. Is like some black and ter
y waterway 10 the ranlms of Ehlis;
u landing vt die picturesque sta
2 \ Blkke, where snow-capped noun
y fse thousands of feet sheer above
~ LIMITATIONS and the towering
4 Of stone, / determined that even
n endeavor should end in broken
4 would first have seen a Norwegian
ss-iest farm.
itf DAYS passed at Bakkc. four days
,'aiemplaiion Of scenery so sombre
s.wtnl that Il continually suggested
internal before / found anyone
e Competent or willing to act as a
" Then good fortune came TO mo
ne pcrson.of a strnpping young fell
. native Of Grindedal, who had been
4 sway from his own mountain home
AAnsrllil. and fired of A rowing life
ue antip0des was returning rs hest
cqh, with look Of eager bomesick-
% bis eyes olInost savage In its
sdy. Tho little he was To- receive
eAtman, gIide md intarDreter wnul1
vl return pay his passnge ON dhe ford
,qers around fiirourh Anrlands Fiord
iees, and still leave him AZ many
~ as a peasants hard labor for n
Y year will Five for saving In Nor
{, 30 We We're n hannv nair M we
q 10 our small bont biroi ~ D,I,ke.
y northeast towards Stvva and Dvr,
~ helds above the clouds.
valid MOI have found in all Norway
70 lifting companion for Ibis porii.
adventure. Not so vcrv lond apo
at method Of stages by row-boat
3 many of these fiords w,s Xiii In
y Travellers wero then taken from
,, hslioa 70 another in cnmberous
'I,pointed boats Tho crow 90 oeCb
" return with other nassoncers ia
zone station; and frcduentiy tbese
y rom stress Of travelers' haste,
n wv ,n,, hired by the week or month.
n and lis varions III ies et.r e ieng,n OF
~ s,l often brought the real Vil,inrs Of
'eea.eratlon. that is. the dweliefs on
y y creeks, along the fiords. into no.
!, .eshce with the pe1sant foil, az S an
hord; and the father az ', ml,, o. s,, 4n
y. name was Peter Ericsson VA
1 ! ,oT q such boat Wien Peter
y ssae to not only know tbe io,. i ., ~ ~
,S,.i eat many had acquired the lines
Deus cunning Of the In5iSns,