The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1882 - 915 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
animal beautiful birch Blekinge boats built called castle Christiania church coast coffee cold color Dalarne Dalecarlia daughter deer distance districts Dovre dressed farm farmers farther feet Finmarken fireplace fish fishermen fjord forests four girls Gudbrandsdal guests Gustaf hamlet Haparanda Henningsvær herd hills horses inhabitants island journey Karasjok Karesuando Kautokeino king kronor lake land Laplanders Lapps Leksand lived Ljungby Lofoden Lyngen miles mountains Muonio night northern Norway Norwegian Olaf Olaf Skötkonung Ottadal parish Pehr population province pulka reindeer river road sæters Scandinavia schools seen shoes shores side Skåne skins sleigh Småland snow snow-shoes soon steamer Stockholm stone storm stranger summer surrounded Sweden Swedish thick thou Torne River town trees Tromsö Vadstena valley vessels walls warm weather wife wind winter women wood wooden young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 90 - Elders who possess the necessary "measure of enlightenment and discrimination" to "fulfil the calling of the shepherd of souls." In the general meeting the men sit on one side of the church and the women on the other...
Seite 374 - In manufacturing establishments or workshops, no one under eighteen years is employed between nine o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning.
Seite 38 - I found the route one continued vineyard. On each side of the road, as far as the eye could reach, there was nothing but vines, save here and there a glimpse of the Loire, the turrets of an old chateau, or spire of a village church. The clouds had passed away with the morning, and I had made a fine day's journey, cutting across the country, traversing vineyards, and...
Seite 168 - ... mountains, the separation would be impossible. According to custom no one can make a new mark, but must buy that of an extinct herd; if these are scarce, the price paid to the families that own them is often high ; the name of the purchaser and each mark have to be recorded in court, like those of any other owner and property. The tax paid is according to the pasture-land occupied.
Seite 339 - Here resta her Highness Queen Philippa, wife of -Erik, formerly King of Sweden, Gotaland, Denmark, and Norway, and Duke of Pomerania — daughter of Henry IV., King of England, France, and Ireland— who died on the 5th of January, 1430." She was the youngest child of Henry IV., was born at Peterborough in 1394, and died at Vadstena 1430, aged thirty-six years. On the slab is incised the Crucifixion, the feet of the figure perforated by one nail. On the dexter side is the coat of arms of England...
Seite 7 - Christmas,' writes Du Chaillu, 'in the afternoon, everything is ready ; the house has been thoroughly cleaned, and leaves of juniper or fir are strewn on the floor. When the work is done the •whole family generally go into the bakehouse, which has been made warm, and each member takes a thorough wash from head to foot, or a bath in a large tub — the only one many take during the year — then they put on clean linen, and are dressed. In the evening they gather round the table, the father reads...
Seite 206 - The words are hardly spoken before she begins to rub me with soap in a most forcible manner, and then to switch me with birch-twigs! The only thing to be done is to consider myself her little brother, and I submit in the meekest possible manner. I have been subjected to the same treatment, minus the switching, in Stockholm and other places, but by women old enough to be my grandmother. One of the most characteristic institutions of the country is the sauna (bath-house), called badstuga in Swedish....
Seite 283 - The house was a thatched cabin. The seats were black oak sticks from the neighbouring bog. A fire of peat blazed, or rather smoked, in the middle of the floor, and a hole in the roof overhead served for a chimney.
Seite 206 - One of the most characteristic institutions of the country is the sauna (bath-house), called badstuga in Swedish. It is a small log-house, built very tight, with no windows, having a single aperture above to let the smoke out; in the centre is an oven-like structure built of loose stones, under which a fire is kept burning till they are very hot; then the fire is extinguished, and the women clean the place thoroughly of ashes and soot, the smoke-hole having been in the meantime closed. A large vessel...