Identifier: 02145706.5485.emory.edu
Title: Norway, Sweden, and Denmark: with excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen ; handbook for travellers
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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ccessible. In point of grandeur, however, theHardanger is perhaps surpassed by some of the N. fjords, such as theFj£erlandsfjord(p.l47), Nordfjord (p. 165, and J0rundfjord(p. 181).The inhabitants (Haramger or Hdringer) and their characteristicsare interesting. The bridal crowns and gold and silver trinkets(such as the Selje, or Sylgja, a kind of brooch or buckle) are curious,and the embroidery, coverlets (Slumretctpper), and carpets (Tapper)made in this district are much esteemed. The costumes are seento advantage only on Sundays, before or after church. The womenwear the Skaut, a kind of white linen cap, folded and starched,and sometimes a red bodice, embroidered with beads. The peculiarHardanger violin (Felt) has steel strings combined with gut to in-crease the resonance. Our description follows the course of the Hardanger-Sand-horland Steamers (Com. 280), which, however, call at differentstations on different trips. The distances are in Norwegian Sea-miles (p. 107). HaxdJaiml _r *
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9»J, * sgurapis ^ ; SUNDAL. 79. Route. 119 a. The Western Hardanger Fjord, to the Mauranger Fjord. Steamer (Com.* 280) from Bergen to Sundal thrice weekly in 6-9 hrs.(6.10 ki\). The other steamers do not call at Sundal, hut keep nearer theN. bank of the fjord. At the entrance to the Kvindhcrreds-Fjord, which forms theavenue to the Inner Hardanger, on the N. and S. sides respectively,He the islands of Tcre (10 S.M. from Bergen) and Here (11 S.M.from Bergen; p. 117). The steamboat-station on Here is namedHeresund (change of boats, see p. 117). From Here we steer into the Stor-Sund, a strait between theislands of Skorpen and Snilsthvcit on one side and the mainland onthe other. On this strait are the stations Uskedal, overtopped bythe Englefjeld and the Kjeldhaug; Demelsviken or Dimmelsviken,between the dark Solfjeld on the S. and the Skinnebergs-Nut onthe E., adjoined by the Malmanger-Nut; and — 2V2 S.M. (from Terfl) Rosendal (Skaales Hot.), near the tower-less church of Kvindherred,

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