``Yes,'' said Cedric, half speaking to himself, and half addressing himself to Athelstane, ``it was in this very hall that my father feasted with Torquil Wolfganger, when he entertained the valiant and unfortunate Harold, then advancing against the Norwegians, who had united themselves to the rebel Tosti.
``The hall rung with acclamations, and cup and horn was filled to the Norwegian, who should be speedily in possession of his English territory.''
Who would have thought that Harold, within a few brief days, would himself possess no more of his kingdom, than the share which he allotted in his wrath to the Norwegian invader?
It was the 'Afraja' of Theodore Mugge, a story of life in Norway during the last century, and I remember it as a very lovely story indeed, with honest studies of character among the
Norwegians, and a tender pathos in the fate of the little Lap heroine Gula, who was perhaps sufficiently romanced.
For some reason or other the
Norwegians do not like to send their money to Sweden.
They encountered --sometimes in whole villages--Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Portuguese, Swiss, Hindus, Koreans,
Norwegians, Danes, French, Armenians, Slavs, almost every nationality save American.
Who, but no less a prince than Alfred the Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the
Norwegian whale-hunter of those times!
I had been told that ours was the only wooden house west of Black Hawk--until you came to the
Norwegian settlement, where there were several.
What an uproar was that of the waters broken on the sharp rocks at the bottom, where the hardest bodies are crushed, and trees worn away, "with all the fur rubbed off," according to the
Norwegian phrase!
D'Arnot knew a few words of
Norwegian, Russian, Greek, and also had a smattering of the language of one of the West Coast negro tribes--the man denied them all.
Victor and Axel, a Swede and a
Norwegian, and I planned to keep together.
Are most
Norwegians unaware of the resources that immigrants represent, I wonder, or are we just unwilling to make use of these resources?