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some distance. Another gem of his collection, a little fisherman s 
chapel from an island in the Laagen, built in 1459, was used for a gran¬ 
ary and its porch for corn-bins. It was about to be torn down, when Dr. 
Sandvig rescued it. But the most difficult piece of reconstruction 
that the indefatigable director of the museum has ever undertaken, 
and the crowning glory of Maihaugen, is the Garmo church from 
Lom, which he has literally gathered, stick by stick, after its timber 
had been sold at auction and built into walls and roof-trees of out¬ 
houses and dwellings round about in the neighborhood. This church 
is as old as Christianity in Norway. It was built in 1025 by Torgeir 
the Old of Garmo, who in return for this act of piety received fiom 
King St. Olaf the right to fish in the Tessevand—a privilege which 
his descendants enjov to this day. It is characteristic of Maihaugen’s 
educational influence that the parish which, within the memory of 
people still living, sold the ancient church for building material, is now 
clamoring for its return to the old site. 
By limiting his collection to Gudbrandsdalen, Dr. Sandvig has 
been able to make it at once exhaustive and homogeneous. Though the 
buildings are of varying ages, they are such as have actually stood side 
by side, have been fashioned by the same race of people, and tempered 
by the same mountain sun and wind. As I walked about on the hill and 
sat under the trees by the tarn, I did not feel as though I were visiting 
a museum. It was rather as though a curtain had been pushed aside and 
I were looking at the life of the people in the valley for a thousand 
years. 
Children Played with 
Wooden Horses in Those 
Days, Too 
