PREFACE 



has yet to find its Scrope or Stoddart. 

 The late Mr. Bromley Davenport indeed held 

 us entranced with his tale of sport on fjeld and 

 river; Mr. Abel Chapman has given us a masterly 

 survey of its wild life by land and water ; as a 

 rule, however, the most successful sportsmen 

 have been content to keep their good fortune to 

 themselves. But the conditions of sport have 

 changed, and the day of seclusion and reti- 

 cence is past. The exploitation of salmon 

 rivers as a business, and the free advertise- 

 ment of their merits, have made the names 

 of the Laerdal, the Sundal, the Orkla and 

 many another river household words among 

 anglers. 



Nota magis nulli domus est sua, quam mihi lucus 

 Martis, et Aeoliis vicinum rupibus antrum 

 Vulcani. 



That this slight contribution to Norwegian 

 angling literature will interest the friends 

 who have fished with me, and those others 



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