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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Yes; the best in the house." "Shall we prepare dinner for you?" "As soon as possible, and see to it that everything is of the very best quality." These remarks were exchanged between Hulda and the traveler before the latter had alighted from the kariol, in which he had journeyed to the heart of the Telemark across the forests, lakes, and valleys of Central Norway.
In the Telemark the back ski should drop behind, and the bend of the back ski should not be ahead of the ankle of the leading foot and should not be allowed to come forward till the turn is completed. Candidates who start the turn with a mixture of ordinary stemming should not be passed. Christianias.
By Saint Olaf! how beautiful Hulda looked under her bridal crown when she left the little chapel at Dal, four days afterward, leaning on her husband's arm. The brilliant festivities that followed were the talk of the whole Telemark for days and days afterward. And how happy everybody was!
In those days Dal was, and may it long remain, the central point for foreign or native tourists, these last being for the most part students from Christiania. From Dal they could wander over the entire Telemark and Hardanger region, explore the valley of Vesfjorddal between Lakes Mjos and Tinn, and visit the wonderful cataracts of the Rjukan Tun.
"As long as you please, Mister Sylvius," replied Hulda. "This room belongs to you." "You see, I intended to stop awhile at Dal as all tourists do, and radiate from here all over the Telemark district; but now, whether I shall radiate, or I shall not radiate, remains to be seen." "Oh, you will be on your feet again before the end of the week, I hope, Mister Sylvius," remarked Joel.
All this is indescribably charming, and eminently characteristic of the most picturesque country in the world. In short, Dal is in the Telemark, the Telemark is in Norway, and Norway is in Switzerland, with thousands of fiords that permit the sea to kiss the feet of its mountains. The Telemark composes the broad portion of the immense horn that Norway forms between Bergen and Christiania.
Besides, if this unpleasant weather continues, it is not likely that many tourists will visit the Telemark this season. But tell me, was it yesterday that your guest left Dal?" "Yes, yesterday morning." "Who was he?" "A man who resides in Drammen, and whose name is Sandgoist." "Sandgoist?" "Do you know him?" "No."
He had long been anxious to visit these provinces of which he knew nothing; and his trip was consequently one of improvement and of pleasure. He had already explored a part of the region, and it was on his return from the northern districts that the idea of visiting the famous falls of the Rjukan one of the wonders of the Telemark first occurred to him.
But if these gossips were not agreed upon the sum offered to Hulda Hansen, they were all of one mind in regard to the usurer of Drammen. "What an infernal scoundrel Sandgoist must be. That rascal who showed those poor people no mercy." "Yes; he is despised throughout the Telemark, and this is not the first time he has been guilty of similar acts of rascality."
What more could the most exacting tourist ask than salmon, either salt or smoked fresh salmon that have never tasted tainted waters, fish from the pure streams of the Telemark, fowls, neither too fat nor too lean, eggs in every style, crisp oaten and barley cakes, fruits, more especially strawberries, bread unleavened bread, it is here, but of the very best quality beer, and some old bottles of that Saint Julien that have spread the fame of French vineyards even to this distant land?
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