The Oxonian in Thelemarken, volume 2 (of 2) / or, Notes of travel in south-western Norway in the summers of 1856 and 1857. With glances at the legendary lore of that district.

A traveling account that moves through Denmark, the Netherlands, and southwestern Norway, combining practical itinerary notes with antiquarian, ethnographic, and natural-history observations. The writer describes urban museums and street scenes, rural hospitality and customs, dialects and philological curiosities, and a wealth of folktales, nursery rhymes, and traditional rituals. Mountain and fjord scenery, glaciers, waterfalls, and hunting and fishing episodes are interwoven with anecdotes about local characters, church and marriage practices, material culture, and reflections on climate, language, and the challenges and pleasures of nineteenth-century travel.