In a week the disease broke out among the children at the mission, and soon word came from islands and fjords where the Eskimos were fishing, of death and misery unspeakable.
There are certain Norwegian fjords and narrow seas which it frequents, and it is scarcely ever seen in the open sea.
They went up a high mountain in the East-fjords and looked around them, whether they could see smoke or any sign that the land was inhabited, and they saw nothing.
Inside the fjords the summer is quite as warm and inviting as in Iceland; it is true that there is drift-ice outside in early summer, but that brings good seal-hunting.
Then said Eric: 'In the summer we sailed from the fjords more light-hearted than we now are, and yet we now have good reason to be so.
Rygh to the effect that the names of fjords in Finmark must be very ancient, e.
Perhaps these names of fjords were so indistinct in the original MS.
The size of the byres shows that the numbers of their stock were not inconsiderable, mostly sheep and goats; only where the level lands near the fjords offered specially good pasture was there any great number of horned cattle.
To the north of the northernmost inhabited fjords of the Western Settlement lay the uninhabited regions.
The Alaskan and Norwegian fjords and the rock basins of the Scottish lochs are adduced as examples.
The pre-glacial valleys and fjords of Norway and Scotland, with their deeply submerged seaward ends, are regarded as proofs of former elevation.
The great fjords of Norway were, just before the Ice Age, stream-cut valleys which were then more or less modified by glacial erosion, and after the Ice Age the rivers in them were drowned due to land subsidence.
These fjordsseem to have been formed by a convulsion that opened great cracks in the mountains which line the coast of Norway.
A week can be spent delightfully in thefjords and on the lakes in the neighborhood of Bergen.
The coronation took place at Trondhjem, the former capital, a city situated on one of the numerous fjordsthat indent the western coast.
Norway is a land of fjordsand lakes, of mountains and glacier expanses.
The mist had sunk low over the fjords between the isles about Bergen, but up there around the tree-tops it was bright sunshine.
The first winter that Hakon ruled over Norway the herrings set in everywhere through the fjords to the land, and the seasons ripened to a good crop all that had been sown.
The king's ship passed by Jadar at a great rate; but thereafter turned in towards the land, intending to run up the fjords to gather men and money.
He went eastward across the mouths of the fjords to Sarpsborg, and held a Thing there, and, as elsewhere, the country was surrendered to him under oath of fidelity.
There are regular steamers on all the fjords and along the coast, even up to the North Cape and beyond.
The views down into the deep valleys and away to the fjords in the distance are always delightful, and there may be a stream with pools holding trout worth trying for.
It is otherwise on the northern west coast of North America, which is indented by fjords and has many outlying islands, with protected channels between them and the land.
When the great whales enter certain fjords which have a narrow inlet, their escape is cut off by nets, and they are shot with poisoned arrows from bows which entirely resemble the crossbows of the Middle Ages.
Another time you pass a longer island, with its belt of dark firs, intersected with miniature fjords and little sanded bays.
From thence the narrative of the journey takes the reader into Norway and along one of the most remarkable coast lines in the world, indented by fjords deeper than the sea into whose bosom they empty.
The long solitary days in the forests, on the pampas, and about the stormy fjords of the Cordillera brought me face to face with Nature.
Norse reverse at Largs; annular eclipse of sun in 1263; Orkney and Shetland colonised mainly from the fjords north of Bergen; see also Orkney and Caithness, earls of.
To Orkney and Shetland they came mainly from the fjords north of Bergen.
A pitiful city,--doubly pitiful to the eyes of a man like myself, whose life has been passed among fjords and mountains such as these.
South of the Toro there are no large rivers on this coast, but the narrow fjords penetrate deeply into the mountains and bring away the drainage of their snow-capped, storm-swept elevations.
The highest peaks rise to the height of 2000 feet, but there is nothing bold and decided in their forms, and after the splendid fjords of the western coast the scenery appears tame and commonplace.
The deepest fjords reach very nearly to the spinal ridge of the mountain region, and a land-road from Bergen to this line would be more difficult to construct than any of the great highways across the Alps.
All this part of the coast is Viking ground: from these fjords went forth their piratical dragons, and hither they returned, laden with booty, to rest and carouse in their strongholds.
The fjordson the western coast of Norway are narrow, shut in by lofty and abrupt mountains, and penetrate far into the land--frequently to the distance of a hundred miles.
That last wave of the Gulf Stream which washes the North Cape and keeps the fjords of Finmark open and unfrozen the whole year through, sweeps eastward along the coast, until it reaches the head of Varanger Fjord.
Thangbrand was given a merchant ship, & of his voyage it may be related that he fared to Iceland, and reached the eastern fjords in southern Alptafjord, & the winter thereafter abode with Hall at Sida.
Then, walking as though on eggs, he made an idiotically wide circle about the feathered dam and her silly chicks.
Apparently, beyond that kick-up of dust, a furlong below, all sorts of interesting things were happening.
He had reawakened in this easily-discouraged chum a new interest in the game.
He showed me the stall; and he told me to take your dog there.
He had the lake to splash ecstatically in: He had all he wanted to eat; and he had all the petting his hungry little heart could crave.
The man did not see him, but passed so close to the dog's hospitably upthrust nose that he all but touched it.
The ten avid fingers missed the bag; and came together with clawing force.
Dogs that get bit by mad dogs had ought to be shot.
These thefts were in the line of jewelry and the like; and were as daringly wrought as were the modest local operators' raids on ash-can and laundry.
I've put a glass of ammonia into the dye, to make it 'set' quicker.
The heads of the fjords are favorite places, as they abound with salmon.
It is only in the northern parts of Home Bay and in the large fjords that smooth ice is formed.
Long fjords and deep valleys divide them into many groups.
The largefjords Sarbaq and Sarbausirn, which belong to their territory, are known to me only by a description which I received in Cumberland Sound.
The Kingnaitmiut go deer hunting to Kitingujang, at the head of Kingnait Fjord; to Nirdlirn, in the bay behind Augpalugtung and Sednirun; to Pangnirtung; or to the more southern fjords Eqaluaqdjuin and Kangertlukdjuaq.
The greater number of the inhabitants were at the head of the fjords fishing for salmon, others were whaling in Issortuqdjuaq, and some were inland on a deer hunting expedition.
The young sealing is here of little importance, as the bears visit the fjords about this season and frighten the animals away.
Therefore the Eskimo could live in the fjords during the winter, as the provisions laid up in the fall lasted until spring.
On light dog sledges they travel over the rough ice and along the shores of the fjords and islands.
The eastern boundary runs through the fjords Maktartudjennaq and Narpaing to Nedluqseaq and Nudlung.
From Tessiujang, Issortuqdjuaq may be reached by the fjords Ugjuktung and Itijareling and by the adjoining passes.
The best season for bear hunting is in March and April, when the bears come up the fjords and bays in pursuit of the young seals.
The passage through the rapids of the fjords was very dangerous, as in the whirlpools and overfalls the bulky boats were easily capsized.
Therefore thefjords and islands which offer a long coast line furnish a good hunting ground, and in the latter part of March and in April the Eskimo either visit these regions or the floes of rough ice.
The Saumingmiut visit the southern fjords of Cumberland Peninsula, where I have marked the settlements on the chart.
Greenland reveals in the character of its valleys the marks of a large subsidence of the continent—the serpentine inlets or fjords by which its coast is so deeply indented.
The glacier ice is thus directly attacked by the waves as well as melted in the water, so that it terminates in the fjords in great cliffs of ice (Fig.
For the same reason, the outlet tongues of ice which descend in deep fjords between walls of rock are melted away from the walls and a lateral stream of water is sometimes found to flow between ice and rock (pl.
Into the heads of these fjords the tongues from the inland ice descend generally to the sea level and below.
Such “beehive” mountains upon the margins of the fjords are the characteristic Norwegian tinds (Fig.
The nest is said to be made on low rocks near the sea, or on higher cliffs in the fjords some distance inland.
Its favourite haunts are rocky islands and coasts, where bays and quiet fjords offer it a haven of safety.
Thorgeir, the eldest brother, was managing the farm at Reykjarfjord, and often rowed out fishing, as the fjordswere full of fish.
Grettir remained for a time in Vatnsfjord and went thence to the Western fjords and tried several of the leading men there, but something always happened to prevent their taking him in.
There came to that part of Iceland three brothers, named Ingolf, Ofeig, and Eyvind, and took the three fjords which are called by their names, where they lived.
Stay there in the Western fjordsuntil the affair is settled.
Then they went further into the bay past somefjords and came to Ofaera, where Eirik said: "Here is what there is to see.
Skapti said he would have to content himself with something short of the best: "And trust no one so fully that what happened to you in the Western fjords may be repeated.
Glacier-lakes are fairly common among the fjords of the west coast of Greenland, and illustrate very well what must have been the state of affairs in Glen Roy at the time of formation of the Parallel Roads.
The fjords never freeze, so that navigation is always open, and there is more or less travel in midwinter between the civilized portions of the arctic regions.
Persons who want to see the fjords of Norway thoroughly should take the regular mail steamers, which call at all small ports and take a month instead of a week for the voyage.
Small steamers ply on all the larger fjords on which the rates are moderate and the accommodations fair.
But it was not until the last century that Norse tone artists discovered the wealth that had long been cherished by the peasants of the fjords and mountain valleys.
The largefjords and lakes have ample steamboat facilities, the coast service between Bergen and Trondhjem being especially good.
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