Excerpt from Norway, Sweden and Denmark: Handbook for Travellers Asterisks are used as marks of commendation. The letter (1, with a date, after the name of a person, indicates the year of his death. The number of feet given after the name of a place shows its height above the sea-level. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.