Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-01-25
NORWAY.

An amber ornament which is SUD-
posed to be about 5000 years old was
found at Fro, Sondmore.
The city of Bergen has a population
OF 76,917, and the increase for the
past ten years was only 4,738.
A landslide at Haga, on the Dram.
men river, carried ten acres of ground
and barn into the river. With the
exception of one horse, the stock in
the barn was lost.
Prominent men in Kristiania have
proposed that the altar table of the
Trondhjem cathedral, which was TAX
en- as booty of war by the Swedes in
the seven-Year-War, be bought back
from Sweden and placed in it's original
position. At the present time it is
kept in the Hoping church. Bishop
Bang is in favor of Offering 1000
for the, relic.
Consul Axel Heiberg, president of
the Norwegian forestry association.
in a lecture before the Christiania
polytechnic society, proposed that the
time for the exposition in Kristiania
be changed from 1914 to 1920. He
argued that the Danes would find it
to their advantage to take part in the
Baltic exposition at Malmo, in 1914,
and the Swedes have agitated so Wig
orously against participating in the
Norwegian exposition that little can
be expected from that quarter. ,
Professor Frithjof hansen contin.
ues to get much criticism on account
Of his attack upon the Icelandic sagas.
and Left Erikson's discovery Of Amer
lea. Finnur Jonsson, professor at the
University of Copenhagen, and admit.
teddy the most profound student of
the Jcelandic saga literature, is the
last to open up his guns on Mr.. Nan.
sen. He lectured in the Royal Dan.
ish Society for Study of Northern sSa.
ga Manuscripts, and criticised Mr..
Nansen's attack upon the sagas as
coming from man lacking the ne
cessary qualifications for a thorough
criticism of the manuscripts. His lee.
ture demonstrated that everything
needed to prove that the old Morse
men visited America has been pro-
duced, so that further proof of this
fact cannot be demanded. There is,
therefore, no reason to doubt that the
Icelandic sagas Of the .Vinland voy-
ayers are correct in their principal
stories, and even if the story is told
with a few unreliable circumstances
added, this should be no reason to
discount the whole contents of these
old and wonderful manuscripts, which
are known to have been written by
people who were in close touch with
the very localities whence the expe-
ditions for Greenland and North Ameri-
ca we're fitted out. Professor JOINS
son further said that to prove the
truth of the Vinland saga it would
only be necessary to start from Green
land and follow the route indicated
and a ship must necessarily arrive at
all the different places mentioned in
the saga.
Old voter. At the local elections
in Arendal vote was cast by Miss
Marthe Brager, who is considerably
over one hundred years old. Her mind
is perfectly sound, and she reads with
out glasses. She had posted herself
thoroughly on local politics before 60"
ing to the polls, and it is said thot she
scratched several names on her ticket
before voting. 49,.
The Oldest stone house in Scion is
a farm house at Stensrud, Grue parish,
which is said to have been butt in
1924. People are still living in it.
A newspaper has suggested that the
building be used as Solor museum.
Anders Daae, warden of the Kristi.
ania penitentiary, died at the age OF
seventy-two years. He had put his
whole soul into the work, and at his
funeral the floral tributes were SO
large that bouquets were made end
distributed among the convicts. Hill.
body was cremated, and according t.
his wishes no funeral sermon was
preached. ~
The cabinet, against the vote Of
the post Office and telegraph depart;
ment, granted a concession to the
city council of Stockholm to build an
electric railway from Stockholm tc
Rrommaland.