6. Barrow's Visit to Iceland by way of Trondhjem in 1834 contains much about some parts of Norway.
Written in Norwegian, and published in Christiania, is a fine work entitled, Norge Fremstillet i Tegninger, 1848. The "Tegninger" are lithographs, eighty-two in number, and well executed and the descriptions are highly interesting. There is also now publishing a series of coloured plates of the Norwegian costumes, denominated Norske Nationaldragter tegnede efter Naturen af forskjellige Norske kunstnere, og ledsagede med en oplysende Text: Christiania, 1850. The plates are highly coloured, and the letter-press is in Norsk, German, and English. Mr. Schirmer of Christiania is also publishing a series of magnificent architectural drawings of the old cathedrals of Norway. There are several excellent maps of Norway, of which Munch's is the best but the only geological map is a very large and complicated one in many sheets, I think by Professor Keilhau. On the botany of Norway there are, Hartmann, Handbok i Skandinaviens Flora: Stockholm, 1843, and Lund, Haandbog i Christianias phanerogame Flora: Christiania, 1846. The Danish pharmacopœia is still employed by the Norwegian apothecaries. On the dreadful disease found in the Bergen-Stift, called Elephantiasis Græcorum, or Spedalskhed, Doctors Danielssen and Boeck have put forth a work in French and Norwegian, embodying an immense deal of research and information, accompanied with an Atlas of twenty-four coloured plates. They consider this disease to be identical with the leprosy of Scripture. Their book was published in 1847; and contains references to every known account of the disease up to that date, in a bibliographical list of great length. An article upon it, comprehending a short but complete account of the disease, may be found in the British and Foreign Med. Chir. Review for 1850, vol. v.
Of Norwegian national songs and music, there are, besides Lindeman's Norske Field-Melodier, the following publications:—
1. Folke Sange og Melodier, Fædrelandske og Fremmelse, udsalte for Pianoforte, 1844.
2. Sangsamling for Norske Selskabskredse: udgiven af det Norske Studenter-samfund: Christiania, 1839. The students of the Christiania University have much taste for music, and are very fond of singing in parts and choruses.
3. Scandinaviske Folkesange udsalte for Pianoforte af Niels W. Gade.
4. Norske Viser og Stev i Folkesproget. Anden Udgave: Christiania, 1848. This contains forty-three national ballads, mostly in provincial dialects, and consequently very difficult to translate but, in many respects, extremely curious, referring to the manners, customs, and superstitions of the peasantry. The new edition is edited by P. A. Munch, Professor of History in the University of Christiania. The notes of some national airs are added at the end.
Professor Munch also published in 1850, Symbolæ ad Historiam Antiquiorem Rerum Norvegicarum. I. Breve Chronicon Norvegiæ. II. Genealogia Comitum Orcadensium. III. Catalogus Regum Norvegiæ. E. Codice quoad magnam partem hactenus inedito, et in orcadibus, ut videtur, medio sæculo XVto conscripto. Appended to it is the following curious genealogy:—
| "Stemma, originem celsissimæ principis LUDOVICÆ, futuræ Principis nostriuxoris, nec non VICTORIÆ, augustissimæ Britanniarum reginæ, a SanctoOlao, patrono Norvegiæ, illustrans." | |||
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| "SANCTUS OLAUS, rex Norveg., ob. 1030, pr. kal. Sept. Uxor Astrida, filia Olai regis Sveciæ. | |||
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| Ulfhilda, mar. Ordulfus, dux Saxoniæ, ob. 1074. | |||
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| Magnus, dux Sax. ob. 1106. | |||
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| Ulfhilda, mar. Henricus Niger, dux Bavariæ. | |||
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| Henricus Superbus, dux Bavariæ et Saxoniæ, ob. 1130. | |||
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| Henricus Leo, id. ob. 1195. | |||
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| Wilhelmus, dux, ob. 1213. | |||
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| Otto Puer, dux Brunsvico-Luneburgensis, ob. 1252. | |||
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| Albertus Magnus, dux Brunsv. ob. 1279. | |||
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| Albertus pinguis, dux Br. Göttingen, ob. 1318. | |||
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| Magnus pius, dux Brunsv. ob. 1368. | |||
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| Magnus Torquatus, dux Brunsv. ob. 1373. | |||
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| Bernhardus, dux Lun. ob. 1434. | Henricus, dux Br. ob. 1416. | ||
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| Fridericus pius, id. ob. 1478. | Wilhelmus victoriosus, dux Br. ob. 1482. | ||
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| Otto Magnanimus, id. ob. 1471. | Wilhelmus junior, dux Br. Guelferb. ob. c. 1500. | ||
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| Henricus junior, id.ob. 1532. | Henricus malus, dux Br. Guelf. ob. 1514. | ||
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| Ernestus, d. Cellæ, ob. 1546. | Henricus junior, id. ob. 1575. | ||
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| Wilhelmus junior, d. Lun. ob. 1592. | Julius, id. ob. 1589. | ||
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| Georgius, id. ob. 1641. | Henricus Julius, id. ob. 1613. | ||
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| Ernestus Augustus, Elector Hannov. 1698. | Sophia Hedviga, ob. 1642, nupta Ernesto Casimiro, Com. de Nassau-Dietz. | ||
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| Georgius I. rex Brit. ob. 1727. | Wilhelmus Fridericus, com. de N.-D. vicerex Fresiæ, ob. 1664. | ||
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| Georgius II. rex Br. ob. 1760. | Henricus Casimirus, pr. de Nassau-Dietz, v. Fresiæ, ob. 1696. | ||
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| Fridericus Ludovicus, princ. Brit. ob. 1751. | Johannes Willelmus Friso, pr. de Nassau-Dietz, vic. her. Fresiæ, ob. 1711. | ||
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| Georgius III. rex Br. ob. 1820. | Willelmus Carolus Henricus Friso, pr. Arausionensis, vic. her. Bat. ob. 1751. | ||
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| Edwardus Augustus, dux Cantiæ,ob. 1820. | Willelmus V. pr. Arausionensis, vic. her. Bat. ob. 1806. | ||
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| VICTORIA, regina Britanniarum. | Willelmus I. rex Bat. ob. 1843. | ||
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| Willelmus II. rex Bat. ob. 1849. | Willelmus Fridericus Carolus, pr. Bat. | ||
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| WILLELMUS III. rex Bat. | WILLELMINA FRIDERICA ALEXANDRINA, Anna Ludovica, nata 5 Aug. 1828." | ||
Further elucidating the ancient history of Scandinavia are the following works:—