I frequently thought the service was coming to a close, but it always began afresh, and lasted, as I said before, until four o'clock.

The number of forms surprised me greatly, as the ritual of the Lutheran Church is in general exceedingly simple.
On this occasion a considerable number of the country people were assembled, and I had thus a good opportunity of noticing their costumes.
The dresses worn by the women and girls are all made of coarse black woollen stuffs.

The dress consists of a long skirt, a spencer, and a coloured apron.

On their heads they wear a man's nightcap of black cloth, the point turned downwards, and terminating in a large tassel of wool or silk, which hangs down to the shoulder.

Their hair is unbound, and reaches only to the shoulder: some of the women wear it slightly curled.