Footnotes
[1] Or over thirty-eight thousand square miles.
[2] Compare Björnson’s account of the temperature at Kvikne in his autobiographical sketch, Blakken.
[3] The statistical and much of the other matter in this chapter has been taken from Norway, Official Publication for the Paris Exhibition, 1900, published at Christiania. But I am also indebted to the stately publication by Norwegian authors and artists entitled Norge i det nittende Aarhundrede, 2 volumes, large folio, 436 and 468 pages. Christiania, 1900. The scholars who published this are W. C. Brögger, B. Getz, A. N. Kjær, Moltke Moe, Bredo Morgenstjerne, Gerhard Munthe, Frithjof Nansen, Eilif Peterssen, Nordahl Rolfsen, J. E. Sars, Gustav Storm and E. Werenskjold. The editor in chief for the texts is Nordahl Rolfsen, for the illustrations E. Werenskjold. There is a large staff of collaborators, each article is prepared by a specialist; the whole is a rare piece of book-making. The printers are Alb. Cammermeyers Forlag, Christiania. I wish to mention also especially here Christensen’s Det nittende Aarhundredes Kulturkamp i Norge, Christiania, 1905.
[4] It was 1,490,950 in 1855, 2,350,000 in 1908.
[5] Dr. A. Magelson of Christiania has recently written a work on Norway as a health resort entitled: To Norway for Health. A Scientific Account of the Peculiar Advantages of the Norwegian Climate, published by Nikolai Olson, Christiania.
[6] The Reliance which defended the America cup against Shamrock III in 1903 was manned almost exclusively by Norwegians. They were from the following towns in Norway: Arendal, Aalesund, Stavanger, Bergen, Larvik, Christiania, and Haugesund.
[7] The Norwegian Total Abstinence Society.
[8] When the Sunday closing order was instituted in Minneapolis in December, 1905, the Minneapolis Journal commented upon the fact that the Norwegian citizens made no complaint, as it appears others did.
[9] This is located at Dröbak.