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was on a lecture tour, which took him to northernmost Norway. His
fourth child, and first daughter, Bergliot, was born June 16, 1869, in
Christiania. When their golden wedding was celebrated in 1908, Bjorn-
son said to his wife: ‘You knew me and knew how ungovernable I
was, but you loved me, and there was a holy joy in that. To you I
always came back from much wildness and many wanderings. I came
back to you constantly. And with all my heart I give you the honor.
To you I wrote the poem: ‘As on I drive, in my heart joy dwells.’
It was not poetical and not sentimental, but just plain and direct. But
I wrote it to glorify my home and you. And I believe that no more
beautiful and deep poem in praise of home has been written. For there
is life’s wisdom in it. It is yours, Karoline, and your honor.”
Page 128.
To My Farner. Written in 1869. Peder Bjdrnson was settled as pas-
tor at Kvikne in Osterdal at the time of the poet’s birth. Originally he
was an independent farmer, like his father and grandfather, on the large
farm Skei on the Randsfjord, where he was born in 1797. He completed
his theological training in 1829, came to Kvikne in 1831, to Nes in
Romsdal in 1837, and to Sogne in 1852. On retiring in 1869 he moved
to Christiania, where he died, August 25,1871. His large frame and
great physical strength were hereditary in his father’s family.
Our race. Allusion to the tradition of the descent of the Bjérnsons
from ancient kings through the poet’s great-grandmother, Marie Oistad.
The Norwegian peasant, see page 263.
Page 130.
To Erika Liz (-NIssEN) (1847-1903). One of the great pianists in Nor-
way, she was born in Kongsvinger on the river Glommen, where her
parents resided also when this poem was written in 1869. She gained
European fame by her concerts from 1866 on, married the physician
Oskar Nissen in 1874, and after 1876 resided in Norway. She was dis-
tinguished for the poetic quality of her playing, for warmth and full-
ness of tone, and for faultless technique.
Page 132.
At MicuaeEt Sars’s GRAVE. He was born in Bergen, August 30, 1805,
and died in Christiania, October 22, 1869. In 1823 he became a stu-
dent of the University in Christiania, where for a time he devoted him-
self to natural science, continuing his boyhood’s lively interest. But
the necessity for self-support turned him to theology. In 1830 he was
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