Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-04-13


vanced the interesting theory that the
| woman whose remains we're found In
the Viking ship Oseherg some years
ago was the grandmother of King Har-
aid Fairhatr. Professor Brogger con-
cedes at the outset that no final or
conclusive proof as to the identity OF
the woman can ever be brought forth.
but holds that the facts upon which
/ he has founded his theory are worthy
Of respectful consideration. The pro
fessor's theory Ia based upon four cir
eumstanees, which have been set forth
as follows: In the first place, the rich
and costly relics buried with the re-
mains. and the circumstances general
iy, prove conclusively that the skels-
ton found in the ship must have been
that OF royal parsonage, who had
been inferred with great pomp and
splendor. The identity Of this person
must therefore be sought in the line OF
where the ship was unearthed. In the
second place, the gold ornaments and
the wood carvings found with the re-
mains indicate that the burial had Ia
ken place about the year $40 The
arts OF the goldsmith and the wood
carver In the viking age were highly
developed. and the changes OF style
and workmanship indicate the prog
ress of time to a nicely, ii being pos
sible to distinguish periods of the 10
to 20 years by close study OF the relics
that now remain. The relics of this
sort found in the Oseberg ship point
to the year $40 as the date Of the
burial OF the supposed queen and her
ship. In the next place. the saga OF
the Yinglings family. rulers Of Vest,
fold, tells Of King Grdrod born about
the year 500. who made a raid into
the territory OF the king of Agder and
carried away his daughter Aasa as his
wife. BY her he had son whom he
named Halfdan. known i'm history as
Haitian the Swarthy. father OF Harald
Fairhair. When tie boy was a year
old the queen brought about the death
of her husband I'm revenge for having
carried her of. Queen Aasa undertook
the bringing up of her son. and when
he had come to age he took over the
rule Of his part of vestfold. Nothing
further is known concerning Queen
Aasa. but II is easily conceivable that
she may have died about the year $40
and been buried in the viking ship
which now. more than ten centuries
later, has been unearthed and brought
In "a Nuh ~ FT ia 10 &c MI
the name Osebsrg points to a deriva-
tion from Aasa-herg. the place In the
fashion of the time received its desig.
nation from the royal person who
made II her home. and In the process
of years been gradually corrupted into
Oseberg, as IL Is now known.
Professor Haegstaf Of the Cniver-
sity Of Christiania recently delivered a
lecture on the Norwegian poet Jon
Norstog. who resides in western North
Dakota. He pronounced Norstog one
of the profoundest poets born on Nor
wegian soil and compared his drama
Moses" with Wergeland's "Mennes-
ket' and Goethe's Faust" Norstog
left Norway as q young man a dozen
or more years ago, after he had COM
pieted his education and had issued
his first volume. Upon his arrival in
America he engaged in journalism In
| Iowa and finally settled on a home
stead in Mckenzie county. North Da-
| kota, where he lived all alone in a sod
| shanty not being blessed with wife
| He has a printing press and few
cases Of type In his shanty and prints
| and binds his works with his own
being as great In Norway as among
| his countrymen In America. Unlike
most of his contemporaries I'm Norway.
| Norstog is intensely religious and all
of his poems and dramas breathe a
deep religious spirit.
| The town OF Molde. says CORE
spondent OF the London Chronicle.
which was recently seriously dam
aged by fire, is the holiday resort OF
| western Norway. and is well known to
English tourists as one of the prettiest
OF the many pretty Norwegian VII
lagos Its chief claim to fame, how"
ever, is Axel Ender's wonderful pic
ture. The First Easter Morn" which
IL installed above the altar in the
quaint little church. The inhabitants
are very proud of the picture. repro
auctions OF which may be bought any
where In the town, and they even en-
courage photographers to photograph
It. In the summer. when darkness Is
almost unknown. writes correspond
ent. | have seen photographers exer
cising their skill upon 1t at II p. m.
while tennis parties were in full swing
near by. Molde is said to be the
kaiser's favorite holiday resort, and he
certainly has been good customer al
the many curio shops there. Not hin
dered by any early closing orders, the
shopkeepers will do business at any
hour.
There are 40 Norwegian Danish
| newspapers i'm the United States, with
an aggregate circulation OF 62s,7iS
| Only fun OF these are daiiieS.