156 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
see ; but on application found that, as it was not con- 
sidered worthy of a place amongst the archives, it had 
been destroyed. I would have given a great deal 
to have seen it, and have made a verbatim translation 
of it. 
From what I could ascertain as to the result—for 
I was at the lake in question last summer, and made a 
point of gathering what information I eould—it ap- 
peared that some inquiry was made into the matter. 
I should think it more than probable that an elk 
may partly have been the cause of this too. Somebody 
very likely, as in the first story, had seen one swimming 
about, and had at once put it down for a monster; 
while the remains of fish on the bank, probably the 
work of an otter, served to confirm the reports that 
had been spread of its devastations. 
While going up the Bandag’s Vand on a steamer, 
the captain drew my attention to a narrow part of 
the lake, through which we were passing—perhaps 
eighty yards wide—which the peasantry firmly be- 
lieved to have been caused by a sea-serpent which, 
tired of remaining in the upper part of the lake, had 
forced its way through the narrow channel connecting 
them, and made it larger and deeper. 
