Note 29 — Chapter XI
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In the district of Lom, where the climate is said to be the driest in Norway, there are the remains of a house in which Saint Olaf is said to have lodged. There was, not long ago, a house at Naes, in Hallingdal, where the timbers were so huge that two sufficed to reach to the top of the doorway from the ground. This old wood often gets so hard that it will turn the edge of the axe.