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CHAPTER XIII.— MODERN NORWAY. 



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The present Constitution of Norway— The Ministry— The 

 Parliament (.^oriiAniv/)— Internal Administration— Re- 

 venue — Liquor Laws— Religion — Religious Intolerance 

 of Norwegians — Education, .... 320 



CHAPTER XIV.— MODERN NORWAY. 



Land Tenure — Few traces of Feudal Tenures — Abolition of 

 Titles of Nobility — Inheritance — Continual increase in 

 the number of Landed Proprietors— Productive Indus- 

 tries of Norway — Fisheries — Agriculture — The Sceter — 

 Forestry — Common Rights in the Forests — Life of the 

 Wood-Cutters — Means of Transport — Physique of the 

 Modern Norseman — National Costume — National Diet — 

 Effect of Republican and Democratic Institutions as ex- 

 emplified in Norway, ..... 336 



CHAPTER XV.— LITERATURE. 



Rise of Modern Norse Literature — Syttendemai Poetry — 

 Wergeland — Welhaven — A. Munch and J. Moe — Norse 

 Antiquarians and Historians — P. A. Munch — Ibsen and 

 Bjornson — Bjornson's Works — Influence on them of 

 German Literature — Bjornson's Character — His different 

 manners — Novels of the Early and Middle Period — 

 Dramas — Bjornson's later manner — Ibsen — The gi'eatest 

 name in Norse Literature — Not to be judged by Social 

 Dramas only — Brand and Peer Gynt — Ibsen's other 

 Dramas — His Pessimistic Character — A. Kjelland and 

 Jonas Lie, ....... 370 



CHAPTER XVI.— THE WILD FLOWERS OF NORWAY. 



Peculiarities in the Distribution of the Norse Flora— Habitat 

 of the principal Wild Flowers— Description of Wild 

 Flowers, ....... 380 



Genealogical Tables, ..... 395 



Index, ........ 396 



