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Torghatten. Right through its middle runs a slanting 
hole which lets the daylight through, as you can see in 
passing. And beyond, in the distance, were the moun- 
tains called the Seven Sisters, and, if you know the 
legend, you know why. On their eastern faces they 
were white, but on the west, where the low sunbeams 
touched them, pink, and purple in the hollows of the 
A SUMMER NIGHT ON THE FJORDS 
snow. Purple on the left hand also were the long low 
lines of rock that met the yellow sand. And across the 
front of this picture came and went the red-sailed 
Namsos fishing boats, flashing roads of crimson from 
the rudder to the sun. 
At Rorvik itself is the narrowest passage on all the 
fjords ; so narrow that in it two boats of the Saxon’s size 
