Word: norwegian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...NORWEGIAN Snow-shoes or Skis made to order, price, $5 a pair, by Hans Christianssen. Address, care of Tucker Daland, Brookline, Mass., to whom reference is made by permission...
...last art-article is Mr. Boyesen's "Norwegian Painters." The rest of the number is filled with fiction chiefly, notable in which is Mr. Hibbard's "Miss Latymnr...
...case with many of these epics, the author commences way back with the ancestors of the hero. There was an old Norwegian Baron named Wolf, who had two sons exactly opposite in character. One son went to war, joining the cause of Harald, and for distinguished services was made a baron. He invited Harald to his home, after a successful war, and entertained him royally. But secret plots were discovered under the mask of his hospitality, and he was put to death by Harald. Wolf and the other son Grim were forced to leave Norway and sailed for Iceland...
Among Ari's writings are the Saga of the history of the Norwegian Kings, the Christni Saga, and the Eislandinger-Bok. The purpose of this Eislandinger-Bok was to afford a narrative of events particularly interesting to Icelanders. While the authority of the former works is sometimes questioned, the authority of the Eislander-Bok is undoubted. This book was the primer of Icelandic history...
...leading paper of the May Atlantic is upon "Henrik Ibsen, his early career as Post and Playwright." The article is almost entirely biographical and not critical. The writer makes the curious assertion that Ibsen is Danish and not Norwegian, as the Norwegian blood which may have been introduced at several points is only through the females of his line ! This is ignoring mothers with a vengeance ! "Sir Peter Osborne" is an account of the father of Dorothy, wife of Sir William Temple, whose letters have been recently published. "Rudolph" is a darkling sort of story, not good...