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| Keywords: Distant View of Skeen (JW Edy plate 37).jpg Artwork Creator John William Edy en Distant View of Skeen named prams in general use throughout Norway; at this town they are construeted very slight with few ground timbers and no saxboards ; the head is considerably higher and projects more out of the water than that of the pram made at other places The hunters with their rifle guns and game are seen reposing and regaling themselves with the mersham pipe under a stratified piece of rock on the bank of a stream which drives the saw and flour mills in the town The huntsmen set out early in the morning into the woods and there sit down with almost inconceivable patience sheltered by a bush to wait for the game No better marksmen can be found; with a rifle ball they invariably hit their game in the eye or head thus preserving the skins entire Few persons are able to endure cold hunger fatigue or adversity in any shape with a degree of magnanimity and composure equal to that which is familiar to the natives of Norway After being out a whole day on a hunt exposed to the bleakest winds and most penetrating cold and that without the least thing to satisfy the calls of nature the hunter comes home warms himself takes a glass of brandy if he has it a bit of brown unleavened bread smokes his pipe of tobacco and then retires to rest as calm as if in the midst of plenty Collapse bottom http //urn nb no/URN NBN no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway London 1820 Plate no 37 p 217 in scanned copy no-nb_digibok_2011072910001 PD-Art-100 John William Edy Boydell's picturesque scenery of Norway Historical images of Skien Geography of Telemark Hunting in Norway Telemark in art | ||||
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