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 Norway: Farmhouses of Yri nestled at the mountain's base. Yrifos pouring down from the glacier On somber Lake Olden, lying deep between cloud-covered mountains, below Maelkevold Glacier Rustoifos, as it seems to come out of the sky above Mt. Rustoi's rugged heights A Nordfjord bride and groom with guests and parents at their house door. Brigsdal Perilous Brigsdal Glacier, one of the grandest in all Norway Cavernous mouth of huge Brigsdal glacier where its melting ice forms mountain torrents Among mountains and caverns of ice; enormous crevasses of Brigsdal Glacier Mountain- walled Loen Lake, unrivalled in beauty and grandeur, from Seten farm Lake Loen, fed by glaciers on its cloud-capped mountain shores Tourists crossing rippling Loen Lake; view across to a huge glacier between the heights More Articles About Norway |
Norway - Tourists crossing rippling Loen Lake( Originally Published 1907 ) Direction—We are facing now nearly south, i. e., towards the upper end of the lake. It happens on this trip that the little steamer will not hold all the tourists, who have come in a large party to see the lake, so a number of them are being towed behind in the tender. These, as it happens, are chiefly Germans; a great many German tourists visit Norway in summer by the Hamburg-American excursion boats, though English-speaking travelers are more numerous still. Sometimes on a summer Sunday, when there is to be preaching at Loen church, the steamer tows a number of rowboats from the lakeside farms. The one place on the west shore where there is room for any farms, is away up near the head of the lake. This steamer will carry us there. The landing-place is marked 78. Be sure to find it on the map. |