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NOTES 227
German translations of Bjérnson’s poems made by various writers
and published in 1908 have been freely and gratefully used.
The Introduction is designed not so much to offer new and ori-
ginal criticism as to present the opinions generally held in Scan-
dinavia, and, of course, chiefly in Norway. The lyric poetry of
Bjérnson has been excellently discussed by Christian Collin in
Bjcrnstjerne Bjornson. Hans Barndom og Ungdom, by Henrik Jaeger
in I//ustreret norsk literaturhistorie, and by various authors, in-
cluding Swedes and Danes, in articles of Bjérustjerne Bjornson.
Festskrift i anledning af hans 70 aars fodselsdag. To all of these
special indebtedness is here acknowledged.
New Haven, Connecticut, Fune, 1915
Page 5.
Nits Finn. “There has hardly been written later so excellent a con-
tinuation of the old Norwegian humorous ballad as this poem (from
the winter of 1856-57), written originally in the Romsdal dialect with
which Bjérnson wished ‘to astonish the Danes.’” (Collin, ii, 14.7.)
Page 10.
VeNEVIL. Midsummer Day = sanktehans= Saint John’s (Feast), on
June 24, next to Christmas the chief popular festival in Norway; the
time when nature and human life have fullest light and power.
Page 12.
Over THE Lorry Moun rains. “ Really Bjérnson’s first patriotic song.
. .. Describes one of the main motive forces in all the history of the
Norwegian people, the inner impulse to expansion and the adventur-
ous longing for what is great and distant.... Written in the narrow,
hemmed-in Eikis valley.” (Collin, ii, 308, 309 )
Page 19.
Our Country. Written for the celebration of the Seventeenth of May
in Bergen in the year 1859. This is Norway’s Constitution Day, corre-
sponding to our Fourth of July, the anniversary of the day in 1814 when
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