Professor Hansteen’s Uemarks made m a Journey 
has been set up. The church is said to be the same which was built 
by King Oluf Tryggessen, when he landed on the island in 997. 
If this be true it is the oldest church in Norway. It is of stone, 
very small, and rudely built, and bears the marks of at least 
considerable antiquity. On Mostur Island is a fine quarry of 
marble, which was set agoing by the late Dean Peder Harbce 
Herzberg, clergyman of Findaas, and father to the present Herz- 
bergs. He erected on the parsonage grounds a sawing and po- 
lishing machine, which was driven by water, where table slabs, 
steps of stairs, and gravestones, were sawed, hewn and polished, 
and marble mortars formed. Tradition informs us, that when 
Oluf Tryggesen saw the new built church, he was so displeased 
with its shabby appearance, and pitiful size, that, , to shew his 
contempt for it to the architect, he sprung up on the roof just 
over the door. In springing down again he set his broad feet 
somewhat hard on the flat stone which lay below, the impression 
of which is still seen in the mark of two footsteps. 
In the church-yard, too, is a pyramidal monumental stone, 
with a hole as right through the middle as the eye of a needle, 
which bears witness to his vigour. Coming one day to church 
on horseback, he looked about without being able to find any 
thing to which he could tie his horse. On this he went to this 
stone, and giving it a kick with his heel, a round piece sprung 
out of it. Through this hole he drew his bridle, and thus -reliev- 
ed himself from his dilemma. 
At mid-day on the 17th July 1 left this delightful party. In one 
of my boatmen I discovered an old acquaintance and companion 
in misfortune in the war period of 1814. Every body knows, 
that at that time the coasts of Norway were closely blockaded 
by English and Swedish cruisers, and that all intercourse be- 
tween Norway and Denmark was cut off. In Denmark it was 
so by a proclamation, of the 28th May the year before, which 
prohibited, under pain of death, every Norwegian from going to 
Norway by any other way than through Sweden. But it was 
impossible, through it, to pass on any other condition than that of 
taking an oath of allegiance to the King of Sweden ; which, un- 
der existing circumstances, was a more insurmountable obstacle 
to such a journey, than the denunciation of the punishment of 
death or hostile cruisers. Every person who found it necessary 
to repair to Norway? which happened to be the case with me, as 
