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Lidhandesnes, is a succession of buttresses or limbs
of the central Doverfell backbone, stretching seawards
at right angles to it, and parted by sheer deep valleys
half filled with water running far up into the land;
round these deep firths lie little scattered plots of
arable land, about the mouth of a stream or in a
combe of the hills; above lie black woods, and on
the upper hill here and there pasture-slopes where
the cattle graze in the summer. Each of these firths
has a life of its own, its only outlet is the sea; outside,
clustered about the mouths of each firth and
its headlands, is a fringe of islands, large and small,
which farther north form a regular skerry or barrier-reef
such as our Hebrides, but here lie closer to land,
like Skye, and Mull, and Isla. In this part of Norway
there are three great inlets–Sogn, belonging to the
Haurds; Hardanger, the Haurds’ Firth, with the
famous stations, Bergwin (Bergen), and Alrecstead
(Alrecsstad) on the coast; and Stafanger, the Firth of
the Rugians, with Stafanger, Ogwaldsness, Out-stone
(Ut-stan) on its isles and coastlands, and the Goat’s
Firth (Hafrs-Firth) just outside it.
The southern ness of Norway with its port, Qwin, and
the coast eastward halfway to the head of the Great
Wick, belongs to the Egda-folk, a division of the
Haurds. Next to them up to the top of the bay lies
Westmere, then the Land of the Grens (which just
touches the Wick), and then Westfold, probably a
Ream settlement; Sciringshall is its great port near
the great Most and above it lay the later Tunsberg.
Opposite Westfold comes Wingul-mark, with Sarpborg
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