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The knives are now sold to tourists, and
Blikstad of Trondhjem does a thriving trade
therein. He makes the blades, and fits them into
handles carved for the most part by peasant
workmen. The material of these is wood or walrus
tooth. Some of them are very elaborate and highly
artistic, with elegant scrolls or characteristic
national designs, such as the lion of Norway, or
illustrations of the Frithiof, or other Icelandic saga.
The artistic elaboration of such hard material as
walrus tooth by self-taught peasants is very
remarkable. The genius for carving generally breaks
out in early boyhood, and is developed during
the long winter nights when the general covering
of snow leaves very little out-of-door work to be
done.
On the Saturday evening—after the ladies had
retired at an early hour even for the temperate
zones—I had a taste of genuine Norwegian
dissipation. Blikstad, the cutler, came into the
apartment corresponding to an English hotel
smoking-room. He had doffed his working dress, and was
so transformed that I did not recognize him until
one of the G-erman travellers challenged “Herr
Blikstad” to join in a “skaal” We then shook
hands and did some more “skaal.”
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