Norway the road and the fell Author:Charles Isaac Elton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. HALLINGDAL. The usual route taken by travellers on leaving Christiania is by the railway to Eidsvoldbakken, the Runnymede of Norway, where the... more »ir much-loved Constitution was drawn up before they consented to be joined to Sweden. Thence steamers ply constantly on the Miosen lake between that station and Lille- hammer at the mouth of the Logen river. Thus one may get more than a hundred miles up the country in one day for about twelve shillings; but although this is a great advantage to sportsmen hurrying to their rivers, it is not such a very good plan for those who wish to see the best of the country and to take their time about it. I should recommend those who care for good scenery to leave the tamer beauties of the much-praised Gudbrands- dal, and go to the Fille Fjeld by Hallingdal and Hemsedal. Not only is the scenery grander, but the manners and costumes of the peasants are more thoroughly national than in any other part of Norway, except perhaps Thelemarken. The valleys are poor,but with sufficient care in adjusting the journeys, a shelter and dinner, comfortable enough for English ladies to endure, may be got each day of the drive. It would be impossible to pass the night in any of the stations except Hamremoen, Nses, Gulsvig, and Bjoberg, except for gentlemen prepared to rough it; but any pedestrian who has been wandering about the moors would find fairly comfortable quarters all along the road. The scenery is as grand as that on the west coast above Bergen, and unquestionably superior to the more travelled road to the Dovre Fjeld. One can either drive straight from Christiania to Johnsrud (fourteen miles), the entrance to Bingeriget, the domain of a petty regulus named Binge in the days before Harald Haarfagre, or go round by Drammen, which is about twen...« less