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Updated: June 11, 2025
In those days this was the only mode of travel in vogue throughout Central Norway, and through the Telemark in particular, and perhaps modern railroads have already caused the tourist to think with regret of the national kariol and Mr. Benett's comfortable carriages. It is needless to say that Joel was well acquainted with this region, having traversed it repeatedly on his way from Dal to Bamble.
Joel, being naturally very pleasant and obliging, was known and loved in every village in the Telemark; but two persons for whom he felt a boundless affection were his cousin Ole and his sister Hulda. When Ole Kamp left Dal to embark for the last time, how deeply Joel regretted his inability to dower Hulda and thus avert the necessity for her lover's departure!
"Fortunately you are at Dame Hansen's inn, where you will have the best of food and care." "Could one imagine a more comfortable place?" "Most assuredly not." "Or better people?" "There are none in the world," responded the young travelers merrily. Then they would all drink to the health of Hulda and Joel, who were so well known throughout the Telemark.
As time goes on and he becomes accustomed to the skid and rattle of hard snow, he will find that his horror turns into pleasure because he can trust it. The Nursery slopes become hard after two or three days and will provide useful experience for coping with such snow on a run. The lifted stem and Christiania are the best turns on hard snow. A Telemark is apt to skid too much.
Hulda had already begun to descend the ledge, carefully selecting the less slippery parts of the slope with the clear head of a true daughter of the Telemark. And she, too, now called out as Joel had done: "Holdfast, sir." "Yes; I am holding fast, and I assure you that I shall continue to do so as long as I can." "And above all don't be afraid!" added Hulda. "I am not afraid."
Besides and this is a point of very considerable importance the food one obtains at the Dal inn is excellent; a very unusual thing at houses of public entertainment in this locality, for the Telemark deserves only too well its surname of the Buttermilk Country. At Tiness, Listhus, Tinoset, and many other places, no bread is to be had, or if there be, it is of such poor quality as to be uneatable.
It is a silver coin, worth about five francs, and its subdivisions are the mark, equal in value to about a franc, and the skilling, which must not be confounded with the English shilling, as it is only equivalent to a French sou. Nor will the tourist have any opportunity to use or abuse the pretentious bank-note in the Telemark.
Consequently it is not at all strange that the name of Sylvius Hogg was a household word throughout Norway, and was uttered with respect even in the wilds of the Telemark; so Dame Hansen on receiving such a widely known and highly esteemed guest, thought it only proper to tell him how highly honored she felt at having him under her roof, if only for a few days.
Not unfrequently they went half-way to meet the postman. Everybody was deeply interested, for the Hansen family was exceedingly popular in the neighborhood; and poor Ole was almost a child of the Telemark. But no letter came from Bergen or Christiania giving news of the absent one. Nothing new occurred on the sixteenth. Sylvius Hogg could scarcely restrain his restlessness.
In fancy, I imprint another kiss upon your brow, around which the shining crown of the brides of the Telemark will cast a saint-like halo. Once more, farewell, dearest Hulda, farewell! "Your devoted lover, Dal is a modest hamlet consisting of but a few houses; some on either side of a road that is little more than a bridle-path, others scattered over the surrounding hills.
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