Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie

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Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie (6 November 1833 – 5 June 1908) was a Norwegian novelist, considered to be one of the Four Greats of 19th century Norwegian literature. Jonas Lie was born in Modum in Eiker, Buskerud county in southern Norway. Five years after his son's birth, Lie's father was appointed sheriff of Tromsø, which lies within the Arctic Circle, and young Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie, spent six of the most impressionable years of his life at that remote port. He was sent to the naval school at Fredriksværn; but his defective eyesight caused him to give up a life at sea. He transferred to the school Bergen katedralskole in Bergen, and in 1851 entered the University of Christiania, where he made the acquaintance of Ibsen and Bjørnson. He graduated in law in 1857, and shortly afterwards began to practice at Kongsvinger, a city in located between the lake Mjøsa and Sweden. Clients were not numerous at Konsvinger and Lie found time to write for the newspapers and became a frequent contributor to some of the Christiania journals. His first work was a volume of poems which appeared in 1866 and was not successful. During the four following years he devoted himself almost exclusively to journalism, working hard and without much reward, but acquiring the pen of a ready writer and obtaining command of a style which has proved serviceable in his subsequent career. In 1870 he published Den Fremsynte ("The Visionary or Pictures From Nordland"), a powerful tale of the sea and northern superstitions. In the following year he revisited Nordland and traveled into Finnmark. Having obtained a small traveling pension from the Government, immediately after his journey to Nordland, he sought the greatest contrast he could find in Europe to the scenes of his childhood and started for Rome. For a time he lived in North Germany, then he migrated to Bavaria, spending his winters in Paris. In 1882 he visited Norway for a time, but returned to the continent of Europe. His voluntary exile from his native land ended in the spring of 1893, when he settled at Holskogen, near Kristiansund. His works were numerous after that. Jonas Lie died in Stavern on 5 June 1908. Works Among Lie's finest works must be considered Familien paa Gilje (The Gilje family), which with its subtitle an interior from the 40s was a striking document of the life of an officer's family, and the few options given to the daughters of such families. One might consider it a Norwegian equivalent of British authors such as Austen and Brontë. His two collections of short stories called Trold involve the superstitions of the fishermen and coast commoners of northern Norway. One of the stories was selected by Roald Dahl for his book of the 14 finest ghost stories of the world.)

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Finn Blood Extract

Oh, thousands of times have we played on the shore,
And caught little fishes--dost mind it no more?
We raced with the surf as it rolled at our feet,
And the lurking old Merman we always did cheat.

'Yes, much shalt thou think of at my lullaby,
Whilst the billows do rock and the breezes do sigh.
Who sits now and weeps o'er thy cheeks? It is she
Who gave thee her soul, and whose soul lived in thee.

'But once as an eider-duck homeward I came
Thou didst lie 'neath a rock, with thy rifle didst aim;
In my breast thou didst strike me; the blood thou dost see
Is the mark that I bear, oh! beloved one, of thee.'

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