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This book describes the wild seas of Northern Norway, and the stern and hardy race of sailors and fishers who seek their fortunes, and so often find their graves, on those dangerous waters. Such tales, for instance, as Tremasteren Fremtid, Lodsen og hans Hustru, Gaa Paa and Den Fremsynte are unique of their kind, and give far truer pictures of Norwegian life and character in the rough than anything that can be found elsewhere. But it is when the author tells us some of the wild legends of his native province, Nordland, some of the grim tales on which he himself was brought up, so to speak, that he is perhaps most vivid and enthralling. The folklore of those lonely sub-arctic tracts is in keeping with the savagery of nature.