[ 1 ] It is customary in Norway for each farm, however small, to have a name.
[ 2 ] (In the original, Rœnnaug.) This was the mother's first name. Her full name would be Randi Newridge, or Randi Peerout.
[ 3 ] Kyare'-stee.
[ 4 ] Sva-howg-en.
[ 5 ] Norwegian children in country districts are accustomed to see goats walking about on the roofs of turf-covered huts, nibbling the herbage; but the idea of a creature so large as to be able to eat from the roof while standing on the ground was very astonishing to Lisbeth.