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| Keywords: Lake Lenongen (JW Edy plate 42).jpg Artwork Creator John William Edy en Lake Lenongen of Plate 25 Although the bare mention of a Norwegian winter makes foreigners shudder the natives speak of that season howsoever inclement as a wished-for source of delight As soon as the snows are frozen hard on the surface the sledge is kept in perpetual motion and every inhabitant seems to have quitted the land for the pleasures of the rivers and lakes The women vie with each other in the splendid or fantastical decorations of their horses and apparatus generally adorning the harness with small bells and a profusion of ribbons coloured tape c They proceed with prodigious swiftness forming a cavalcade animated by general bustle and merriment This is the only opportunity afForded to the grotesque upland peasant for visiting distant towns where he disposes of his stock of bear and other skins game fish natural curiosities and ingenious carvings on wood in form of walking-sticks tobacco-pipes snuff-boxes c c On his return he purchases wine liquors tobacco tools nails hats shoes needles and other necessaries for domestic use In great cities like Bergen Trondheim Drontheim and Oslo Christiania it is curious to observe the different characters in the motley crowd and particularly the rusticated mountaineers who being so much secluded from commerce with the world are in a state of pure nature The great influx of people presents the appearance of an annual fair and such indeed the assemblage may be considered Many benefits accrue from them to the shopkeeper and it is said that more articles are vended at this season than during the rest of the year Collapse bottom http //urn nb no/URN NBN no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway London 1820 Plate no 42 p 239 in scanned copy no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 PD-Art-100 John William Edy Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway Geography of Vestfold Lakes of Vestfold | ||||
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