{"product_id":"2940016110967","title":"Peeps at Many Lands: Norway","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        Chapter                                   Page\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        I.    The Land of the Vikings                1\u003cbr\u003e        II.   Modern Norway                          5\u003cbr\u003e        III.  The People and Their Industries        9\u003cbr\u003e        IV.   On the Farm                           15\u003cbr\u003e        V.    Manners and Customs                   20\u003cbr\u003e        VI.   School and Play                       25\u003cbr\u003e        VII.  Some Fairy Tales                      32\u003cbr\u003e        VIII. The Hardanger Fjord                   37\u003cbr\u003e        IX.   A Glimpse of the Fjelds               43\u003cbr\u003e        X.    Wild Nature--Beasts                   48\u003cbr\u003e        XI.   Wild Nature--Birds                    54\u003cbr\u003e        XII.  Waterfalls, Snowfields, and Glaciers  60\u003cbr\u003e        XIII. Driving in Norway                     66\u003cbr\u003e        XIV.  Arctic Days and Nights                70\u003cbr\u003e        XV.   Laplanders at Home                    78\u003cbr\u003e        XVI.  Winter in Christiania                 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        Skjæggedalsfos, Hardanger Fjord        frontispiece\u003cbr\u003e                                                Facing Page\u003cbr\u003e        Nærodal, from Stalheim, Sogne Fjord            viii\u003cbr\u003e        Fishing Through the Ice on Christiania Fjord      9\u003cbr\u003e        Making \"Fladbröd\"--A Cottage Interior            16\u003cbr\u003e        A Hardanger Bride                                25\u003cbr\u003e        A Baby of Telemarken                             32\u003cbr\u003e        Godösund, Hardanger Fjord                        41\u003cbr\u003e        A Sæter                                          48\u003cbr\u003e        Bondhus Glacier, Hardanger Fjord                 57\u003cbr\u003e        Lærdalsören                                      64\u003cbr\u003e        A Lapp Mother and Child                          73\u003cbr\u003e        Skiers Drinking Goosewine                        80\u003cbr\u003e        Sætersdalen Girl In National Costume   on the cover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                 Sketch-Map of Norway on page vii.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNORWAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LAND OF THE VIKINGS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho has not heard of the Vikings--the dauntless sea-rovers, who in the\u003cbr\u003edays of long ago were the dread of Northern Europe? We English should\u003cbr\u003eknow something of them, for Viking blood flowed in the veins of many\u003cbr\u003eof our ancestors. And these fierce fighting men came in their ships\u003cbr\u003eacross the North Sea from Norway on more than one occasion to invade\u003cbr\u003eEngland. But they came once too often, and were thoroughly defeated at\u003cbr\u003ethe Battle of Stamford Bridge, when, as will be remembered, Harald the\u003cbr\u003eHard, King of Norway, was killed in attempting to turn his namesake,\u003cbr\u003eKing Harold of England, off his throne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorwegian historians, however, do not say very much about this\u003cbr\u003eparticular invasion. They prefer to dwell on the great deeds of\u003cbr\u003eanother King Harald, who was called \"Fairhair,\" and who began his\u003cbr\u003ereign some two hundred years earlier. This Harald was only a boy\u003cbr\u003eof ten years of age when he came to the throne, but he determined\u003cbr\u003eto increase the size of his kingdom, which was then but a small one,\u003cbr\u003eso he trained his men to fight, built grand new ships, and then began\u003cbr\u003ehis conquests. Norway was at that time divided up into a number of\u003cbr\u003edistricts or small kingdoms, each of which was ruled over by an Earl\u003cbr\u003eor petty King, and it was these rulers whom Harald set to work to\u003cbr\u003esubdue. He intended to make one united kingdom of all Norway, and\u003cbr\u003ehe eventually succeeded in doing so. But he had many a hard fight;\u003cbr\u003eand if the Sagas, as the historical records of the North are called,\u003cbr\u003espeak truly, he fought almost continuously during twelve long years\u003cbr\u003ebefore he had accomplished his task, and even then he was only just\u003cbr\u003etwenty-one years of age.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121409376496,"sku":"2940016110967","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016110967","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}