2j6 H IIST Q R X l o BMQ 2? WMT,.
from that '/very: European people
jfhey hadiiaf&fferSs fecgfeai: jciufe>tg:tednqd,ain tofiwNeiferthelefs;
if - we<may; jj|dge by [their manners and' cufioiris, it am convinced
thatifibeit/prigin is. .gf;a >BaMGli more ancidatic^te. -: cTrather-think;
that they came ifqmq ages frnce. from the Britilh and.-Orkney»
i^apd% -, j
; ;s fome remains of idolatry and fuperftition,
t^thggtvthe leaft}iigti; p£ .chihfranity ampngftl them,,;we. might
perh^ps[av§r, .th^t- thpy.are ddoended fFpmjthorp-;Gaiiibri,> which
fqrfoqk; lyalcs^ to difcover new countries in;. the weft, about ..the
ogdpfcjthe twp]|th> century, under the command qftlMadop their
prince, a fon < ^ O w e o ^ - ( ^ a y B e ^ -by David .Powel, in
bis.hi^ory of; the Qapibfi; .if this voyage'of JVIado^'be .not fabugf[
the‘country.
maux -^e derived» from Ijgaep&B» ;whq ycftme'fthqre<; fome ajges:
ago» I think we'cafinot but;beMeyo,to be’ true; ^a/majtn Bifcay-i
ansjipf pfftopsHlfithegfc- who; hp-Yfi beemconyer-fodi te>: ohriftianity?
fb"|ong,j<ob,wl^h;there;muft;#ithoutidoubt~haye»<remafeBfb'iOrq^
£odtftepsfJ dbesitfot atah !agreer;wth«daidts. :nUporii:lie .wfiple, ’ all
£his: :fubje<3: arfe> at an-end owhen we read fome of
our good Norvfegian 'authors, cfpecially Amgrimrai Jond i Quoted;
abc»ye. f
> Many; cenfiderableleolonies .have.gbneiriway ;at the .Mter bfed'
of the fourteenth century, from henceynas welliia§ rimfo-Sothefc
counties, . and a . great many were carried - offr;b^ ;an epidemical
diftemper-that raged at' that' time, wluch'th^ Norve^ans.-called;
forte dod,;j or black; ideath.u.'Bythis I means the noifextit^ffoasi:’be0a?
greatly weakened’ and. ftrip’t of <its inhabitants" in. many.'fdabe^,!
However,later. times have, recovered this lofs,. fp I that the old
habitations (afev again occupied, and: ,»new| onesj .- added Ito them.
Hence; we -may fee the benefits ofpeaeej and what advantages it
brings to a country. \Tfiat it cbndupes to the increafe of the inhabitants,
. may be concluded by examining thefe laftihirty years
p^ace^ for ^the -mcreafenf-people : is; fo: obvious, in this diocefe; -and
in all probabih.ty.in other places, that moft of: the farm-houfes
which formerly had: but. one family, now have-two,: three, ./or 'four.
To this we may add the great numbers of young feafarihg men,
■ 1 l who,
H M w H TgilCOfRY 1 IW'OM'WAT.
'feM^hypttfinifilphy arid with pfdper pâfiès, and a great many with-
out.'palfos^'gn evtry.y^eâhito Holland and other Countries 'to■ ferve
as lailorsyknd whefi thefe are a>mpleât foamen,*'they are preferred
to all .other ;, all: t.thefe togetheiumake a much greater number
than, ode would imagine. |
f . n I ■
Colonies
.ftrangers’
Norway.
On the contrary,-.' there afe,* many foreigners who come into
Norway, and fometimes fettle: mere, particularly Danifh, Englifh,
Seoton, ^Ehirch,' aho Germans. The firft of thefe,- who are um4
Serially' called, ’both nere àrid in Sweden, Jyder, have frequent
opportunities fo^mne'mere, jfoiiib to be .put'in placés and employ
merits üriaer the'government, 6m<érs are drawn hither by
mercantile11 'anaif s J' elpecialjy nrice the' Union of Calmar, which
hàSnif^ôlpOTlnçdrl^ren^^mnons mfd ode; profeffing the fame
religion1, imyéét to me Tame government, arid lpeaking the lame
language *. Since that time* they may bèdoôked' upon as one
pëàpé,‘'accorafig to u|è
the' ;;
. Sçrmonenj, ilnfonii Patrium .mprehjue >tenebunt,
à Utqup eif nomen erit, commixti çorpore tantum
Subfident Tgupi»;. morem ritufijue, facrorum .
Adjiciam, faciatnque ,pûmes tuno;.ore ,Latinos.
Hi^ceepus A^fenja. nrijjxim, quod fangufn^.fiirget,
Supra hominçs, lupra .fie Deos, idétate videbis.
.. Upqn..what;,.tertpsL thefe.t-VYo .na.ti©ns,ii;feq^lyj.^^t)an4 ;fic©'j;
have been united, may-'be feen amongft othgr ,curiOus,jpiqcgs.. iiir
Arjld. Htdbfeld’s, yqUe^fip}^,. Tom.' II. P . .131 (*, ^where:-there ;fejin-
ferted aifcoldlétt^j î fobfc^i^d by two leEators^ .^.t ^ jdietheld in
Bprgpn,; .anno 143.0,^i n whic^ J^i^s kpgr,-
doms, Denmark an.d. (Norway,. ; fbalh hepgefordb ;be united -in ibrcN-r
fiierly. lçry^ ,rin tfpd^ ^fe^dfhip?j j}a^;d J neither.-, qfi }|hetri -fhajh
be,fiibje£f tq 'the other i | ea.ch ^kingdom ,fh^h be goy^med fiy >it§;
ownr-patiypsj e^h^cWqïwqgi|fl:
î^®iK.'fa'igé'.diafeâj,th5âangüàgtr;of UiS £tfers,i SVmBi the threë'irtôraieïw
k in g d ^ s ^ apd
tSéyétmld‘riOT^haerffind'-eaclrotBérj'al is'xWrcajfe tjr theicèl'arfded’fîow, wKo^rwe
cafltidtjdogv^rfe’ with;: -and
mopjpedpleiutnat. we,do not undetflind, p£ wmch.therd'-ïs.'a proof in die Gioffariurrb
IxûrvàgicMnS^i âHd^pydtààffip the^laWs ed*tffemtng
vins; fervic^..kavejpi;QdHfed a greater.çÿvajt^ in ifo lane^age.
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