fish: cod, 20-5, 93 drying, 24-5 halibut, 93 herring, 16, 93 market, 93 shipping, 9 fishermen, 16, 20-5 fishing boats, 16, 17, 20-4 fishing towns, 16, 24 fjord (fyōrd): cause of, 30-1 travel on, 51-3, 165 flags: American, 9, 114, 117, 181, 187 Danish, 9 Norwegian, 134, 187-8 other lands, 9 Swedish, 138 food, 66, 75, 95-6, 108, 110 forests, 33 conservation, 37 Fram (främ), 180-8 giants: fairy tale, 26, 32, 107, 111, 153, 158-61 nature’s, 27, 32 glaciers (glā shŭrz), 27-32, 73 gods, 153 Frey (frī), 153 Loki, or Loke (lō´kē), 153-61 Odin (ō´dĭn), 107, 111 Thor (thôr), 153-61 Tye (tī), 153 Wodin (w[=oo] dĭn, or ō´din), 153 government: protection of fishermen, 24 providing land, 69-70, 101 Scandinavian union, 134 Norway’s separate government, 134-5 Gudbrand (g[=oo]d´brănd), 174-6 Gulf Stream, 12-13 high pastures, 60-70 Hjalmar (hyäl´mär), 176-8 Hjorvard (hyôr´värd), 172-3, 175 houses: farm houses, 74-5 fisherman huts, 15-16 Lapp huts, 46-7 old houses, 147-50, 152, 167 saeter huts, 60-1 summer houses, 100-6, 139-42 Stockholm buildings, 103 Independence day: Norwegian, 134 American in Denmark, 114-17 instruments for direction, 180 islands: coast of Norway, 14-17 Denmark, 142 Stockholm, 97-8 Ivar (ī´vär), 172-8 Jotunheim (y[=oo] tŭn hīm), 26 knights, 4, 105-6 languages: foreign, 10, 87, 143 in schools, 136-7 Lapland, 45 Lapps, 44-50 Lofoten (lō fō´ten), 20-5 logging, 33-6 mail delivery, 12, 59 Maypole, 1, 11-14 Mid-summer Eve, 111-114 milkmaids, 60-69 mountains: carriers, 56 city in midst, 90, 92 high peaks, 26, 32, 52-3 how clothed, 38-42 moss, 44 streams, 34-6 walls, 17, 52-3 museums: Amundsen’s equipment, 183 Andersen, 86-7 open-air, Oslo, 162-3 open-air, Norway and Sweden, 145-52 Nansen (nän´sĕn), 179-80 national anthem: Norwegian, 133 northern seashores, 12 Norsk (nôrsk): words, 136 North Cape, 11 North Pole, 179-80 North Sea, 90 Odense (ō´thĕn sā), 82, 86 Oseborg (ōs´bûrg), ship, 162 Oslo (ōs´lō), 51, 136, 144, 162 palace, 103, 104, 136 paper pulp, 36-7 pirates, 98, 168 plateau (pla to): King Haaken VII’s (häw´kōhn), 186 quay (kē), 102-3 rainfall, 92 reindeer (rān´dēr), 1, 43-8, 68-9 saeter (sā tẽr), 60-70 Grotli (grōt´l[~i]), 68 huts, 60, 63-4 location of, 69-70 schools: Danish, 71-2, 80-1, 142-4 Lapp, 47-9 libraries, 144 Norwegian, 132-7 studies, 131, 134 Swedish, 137-42 Viking education, 173-6 ships: of different nations, 9 on northern seas, 12 passenger, 10 Sif (sĭf), 154-5, 157 Sigrlin (sĭgr´lĭn), 172, 175 South Pole, 181, 187-8 sports: races, 141-2 sail-skating, 124-7 skating, 111, 127 skiing, 1, 111, 118-24, 181, 186 swimming, 102, 139-42 teaching of, 138 sun, 3, 5, 6, 7, 18, 182, 183 sunshine: days without, 5, 13, 20 nights with, 7, 20 Thor (thôr), 153-61
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