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who, by permiffion, and with proper paffes, and a great many with- 

 out paries, go every year to Holland and other countries to ferye 

 as failors, and when thefe are compleat feamen, they are preferrid 

 to all other ; all thefe together make a much greater number 

 than one would imagine. 



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On the contrary, there are many foreigners who come into ^^ s s ^ 

 Norway, and fometimes fettle there, particularly Danifh, Englifh, Norwa > r 

 Scotch, Dutch, and Germans. The firft of thefe, who are uni- 

 verfally called, both here and in Sweden, Jyder, have frequent 

 opportunities to come here, fome to be put in places and em- 

 ployments under the government, others are drawn hither by 

 mercantile affairs, efpecially fince the union of Calmar, which 

 has incorporated thefe two nations into one, profeffing the fame 

 religion, fubjecl: to the fame government, and fpeaking the fame 

 language *. Since that time they may be looked upon as one 

 people, according to the account Virgil gives of iEneas's uniting 

 the Aufonians and Trojans in one nation : 



Sermonem Aufonii Patrium morefque tenebunt, 

 Utque eft nomen erit, commixti corpore tantum 

 Subfident Teucri, morem ritufque facrorum 

 Adjiciam, faciamque omnes uno ore Latinos* 

 Hinc genus Aufonio miftum, quod fanguine furget, 

 Supra homines, fupra ire Deos pietate videbis. 

 Upon what terms thefe two nations, equally great and free, 

 have been united, may be feen amongfl other curious pieces in 

 Arild. Huitfeld's collection, Tom. II. p. 13 16, where there is in- 

 ferted an old letter, fubfcribed by two fenators, at a diet held in 

 Bergen, anno 1450, in which are thefe words: " Both king- 

 doms, Denmark and Norway, fhall henceforth be united in bro- 

 therly love, in trade and friendfhip ; and neither of them fhall 

 be fubject. to the other ; each kingdom fhall be governed by its 

 own natives, &c." The Norwegian nation is as much beloved in 



* I mean by the fame dialect the language of the Afers, which the three northern 

 kingdoms, and part of Germany, had in common ; but by degrees varied, fo that 

 they could not underftand each other, as is the cafe of the Icelanders now, whom we 

 cannot converfe with : and there is ftill here many hundred words ufed by the com- 

 mon people, that we do not underftand, of which there is a proof in the Glofikrium 

 Norvagicum. Since the union of Norway and Denmark, the laws concerning di- 

 vine fervice, have produced a greater change in the language. 



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