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Anne Lister Norway

Anne Lister's travels in Norway

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  • Travel Journal
    Transcripts of the full Norway travel journal with illustrations, maps markings and comments. ~ still under construction ~
  • People
    People that are mentioned – more about them and images where they could be found
  • Maps & places
    Places, buildings and travel routes
  • Food
    Foods that Anne eats or mentions (with recipes coming)
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    This page will be filled up over time with findings that have caught our attention here at annelisternorway.com

Calendar – find a particular day

  • Svinesund_FerryDay 1 – Entering Norway by ferry across Svinesund
    Sunday 28. july 1839
  • Day 2 – Arriving at Christiania (Oslo) from the South East
    Monday 29. July 1839
  • Day 3 – Christiania
    Tuesday 30. july 1839
  • Day 4 – Christiania (ii)
    Wednesday 31. July 1839
  • Day – 5 Christiania (iii)
    Thursday 1. August 1839
  • Day 6 – Antiquites then heading west
    Friday 2. August 1839
  • Day 7 – “Everybody should see Drammen”
    Saturday 3. August 1839
  • Day 8 – Norse food traditions and other cultural & social matters at Bolkesjø
    Sunday 4. August 1839
  • Day 9 – Picturesque mountain valley
    Monday August 5. 1839
  • Day 10 – Nobility, pensions, iron works and heroics as Smith falls off the wagon.
    Tuesday August 6 1839
  • Day 11 – Krokleiva, return to Drammen in search of lost ring, measuring bridge with umbrella …
    Wednesday 7. august 1839
  • Day 12 – Back in Drammen but no sign of the ring
    Thursday August 8 1839
  • Day 13 – maps and norse and arranging an ad in the paper abt the lost ring
    Friday August 9 1839
  • Day 14 – A day of study – Norse history and anchovies
    Saturday August 10 1839
  • Day 15 – Norse dinner parties and wine consumption
    Sunday August 11 1839
  • Day 16 – Trotting about in Christiania and selling the carriage
    Monday August 12 1839
  • Day 17 – Battling sea-sickness on the Prinds Carl to Gothenburg
    Tuesday August 13 1839
  • Arriving Gothenburg – Sick all night – happy to set foot on land again
    Wednesday August 14 1839

INDEX: places, people, foods, subjects

  • Aagaardselva? (1)
  • Advertisement (1)
  • Akershus festning (2)
  • Andreas Grüning (2)
  • Anna Krefting (1)
  • Ann sketching (2)
  • antiquities (2)
  • Banco (1)
  • Baron von Nicolay (1)
  • Barum (1)
  • Bird collection (1)
  • Bolkesjø (4)
  • botanic garden (14)
  • brandy (1)
  • bread and butter (1)
  • bridle crest (1)
  • butter (1)
  • bærum (1)
  • Bærums verk (3)
  • Captain Rose (2)
  • Carlshus (1)
  • castle (1)
  • cathedral (3)
  • change of money (2)
  • christiania (4)
  • count Wedel Jarlsberg (2)
  • customs (1)
  • deventer gingerbread (1)
  • Dilling (2)
  • dinner (1)
  • Dobson (laquais) (1)
  • Domkirken (1)
  • Dovre (1)
  • Drammen (4)
  • Dravle (1)
  • Dzwonkowski (4)
  • Earl of Hillsborough (1)
  • Edward Rawson (1)
  • english pencils (1)
  • exhibit (1)
  • ferry (1)
  • flatbrød (4)
  • fleskepannekake (1)
  • fleskepannekaker (1)
  • food preservation (1)
  • forbud (1)
  • Fredrikshald (1)
  • Fredrikstad (1)
  • fun fact (2)
  • gausta (2)
  • Georg Henrich Jæger (2)
  • Gjellebekk (1)
  • Glomma (1)
  • Goat and sheep cheese (1)
  • granite (1)
  • Grüning & Co (3)
  • Guldberg & Dzwonkowski (5)
  • Guslund (2)
  • Hafslund (1)
  • Hafslund? (1)
  • Haraldstad (2)
  • hede (1)
  • Helle (1)
  • Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg (1)
  • Hogdal (1)
  • hokksund (2)
  • Hoppe (1)
  • Hoppegården (1)
  • horses (2)
  • Hotel du Nord Christiania (2)
  • Hugh Henry Rose (1)
  • Huth & Co (1)
  • ironworks (1)
  • J.Dahl bookshop (1)
  • J.W. Cappelen bookshop (1)
  • Jonsrud (2)
  • Julie von Bjelke (2)
  • Jæger (1)
  • Kallevig M.D. (1)
  • Karlshus (2)
  • Kongsberg (2)
  • Korsegaarden (2)
  • krokkleiva (1)
  • Krokleiva (1)
  • Li (1)
  • Lord Cantelup (2)
  • Mackintosh lining (1)
  • Madame Samuelsen (2)
  • map (3)
  • mariboegården (1)
  • milk (thick) (1)
  • Moenseter (3)
  • Moensetra (2)
  • Moss (3)
  • multer (1)
  • Musee of Northern Antiquities (1)
  • natural history (1)
  • Nobility (1)
  • norse metrics (1)
  • old artifact at Shibden (1)
  • pancakes (4)
  • pannekaker (2)
  • Passport (1)
  • pay for servants (1)
  • pine forest (1)
  • plants (10)
  • pork pancakes (2)
  • Prinsdal (1)
  • protokol (1)
  • Ravnsborg (1)
  • recipe (1)
  • reins (Anne taking) (1)
  • rice cake (2)
  • ring (1)
  • royal palace (2)
  • Rudolf Keyser (2)
  • salmon (1)
  • Sandesund (2)
  • sharing a towel (1)
  • Shibden (1)
  • Sir Hume Campbell (2)
  • Skälleröd (1)
  • Smith (3)
  • Snøhætta (1)
  • Soner (1)
  • stolpebod (1)
  • stoplebod (1)
  • storting (1)
  • Stortorvet (1)
  • Sunby (1)
  • surmelk (1)
  • surmelk (sour milk) (1)
  • Svinesund (3)
  • Såner (2)
  • Såner kirke (2)
  • søylegården (1)
  • Torvet (1)
  • travel route (2)
  • Vonkowskis (Dzwonkowski) (1)
  • W.R. Wilson (1)
  • wages and taxes (1)
  • Westgaard (2)
  • wood shafts (tracers) (1)
  • writing letters (2)
  • xtiania (1)
  • zoology (1)
  • østfold (1)

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Transcripts

1 Entering Norway by ferry across Svinesund

2 Arriving at Christiania (Oslo) from the Wouth