The story is located in Lærdalen and Skarlie's home is in Lærdalsören, a small town at the head of one of the branches of the far famed Sognefjord on the west coast. I well remember with what care the author made his observations. The story was written the following winter in Rome, but was not published until 1877, when it appeared in the original in Copenhagen and in a German translation in the Rundschau simultaneously.
