in the interests of their 
business during the war, 
additional funds were col¬ 
lected, and the decora¬ 
tions have now been com¬ 
pleted. The main hall is 
ornamented with series of 
paintings by Yngvar Son- 
nichsen and Sverre Mack 
illustrating incidents from 
Norse mythology or from 
the earlier and later his¬ 
tory of the Norwegian 
people. Special stress has 
been laid on the events 
that show the expansion 
characteristic of the vik- 
Norway Halt, Under Two Flags 
ing age and the contact of the old Norsemen with the outside world, 
as in Sonnichsen’s Normandy picturing an incident in the conquest 
of northern France by the Norsemen, and in Sverre Mack’s presenta¬ 
tion of Sigurd Jerusalem-farer entering Constantinople. Sonnichsen’s 
Vinland is a decorative piece showing the New World as it appeared 
to the Norse imagination after Leif Ericson’s discovery of America. 
In the entrance hall carvings in the dragon pattern are adapted 
to the Romanesque arches. From this one enters the main auditorium 
with its lofty span of ceiling and its mural paintings running like a 
frieze along the walls and filling the gable ends. This hall seats 800. 
The Lodge Room Showing Decorations by Sverre Mack 
