Stølskveld

 (Svein Nord).

The Literary Landscape

Now the evening rises in the western skies. It treads with light footsteps
through the hamlet and the shadowy hill hangs between.
A whisper runs through the thicket and the heather, and the songthrush changes sound and
sings with a hidden quivering farewell tune under its strings”. .

This is one of the classics in the Norwegian book canon, the lyric poet Olav Nygard from Modalen who captivates us with this wistful tone on a landscape where he feels at home, but where, in many ways, he feels himself a captive, misunderstood and little heeded as he was by his contemporaries. The imagery and the linguistic richness links Nygard closely to the landscape. The experience of nature by our lyric poets also gave our own appreciation of the landscape a deeper resonance.

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