In the little _saeterjenta_ we have a type of the laboring peasant women of Norway and Sweden; all willingly industrious and all philosophically extracting some sweets out of the burdensome life they must live, and that is why I say they deserve a tribute, whether in the field or factory, the _saeter_, the common home, or the palace.[s] AUTHORSHIP OF CHAPTERS _a_ and _b_, Sigvart Sörensen's _Norway_ (P.F. Collier, New York). _c_, Nillson's _Sweden_ (P.F. Collier, New York). _d_, Sigvart Sörensen's _Norway_ (P.F. Collier, New York). _e_, Sigvart Sörensen's _Norway_ (P.F. Collier, New York). _f_, O.G. Von Herdenstam's _Swedish Life in Town and Country_. _g, h_, and _i_, William E. Curtis's _Denmark, Norway, _and Sweden_ (Saafield Pub. Co., Akron, Ohio). _j_, Mary Bronson Hartt, in _Outlook_. _k_, Swedish American in _Review of Reviews_. _l_, Wm. E. Curtis' _Denmark, Norway, and Sweden_, and W.S. Monroe's _In Viking Land_ (L.C. Page & Co., Boston). _m_, W.S. Monroe's _In Viking Land_. _n_, Monroe and Curtis in above-mentioned books. _o_, O.G. Van Herdenstam in _Swedish Life in Town and Country_. _p_ and _q_, Curtis's _Denmark, Norway, and Sweden_. _r_, W.S. Monroe's _In Viking Land_. _s_, Wm. Eleroy Curtis's _Denmark, Norway, and Sweden_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Norwegian Life, by Ethlyn T. Clough