Grufullt lite foredrag jeg holdt på museet i kveld. Et språklig togkrasj, siden jeg skrev førsteutkastet på riksmål, før jeg plutselig innså at syntaksen min når jeg snakker er mer nynorsk, hvorpå et kaotisk og halvhjertet forsøk på å tilpasse stilen muntlig framføring oppsto.
Som sagt, språket er katastrofe, innholdet noe bedre. Poster foreløpig tekst, så [...]
Posts filed in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (1832-1910) is generally considered to be one of Norway’s greatest poets. He wrote books, poems, song lyrics (including Norway’s national anthem), and short stories, as well as some 20,000 newspaper articles and 30,000 pages of letters, and is often referred to as the person who’ve influenced Norwegian history the most without holding an official position.
He is usually credited for his innovative peasant tales from the 1850s and 1860s, where he reformed the way Norwegian authors wrote fiction. Today, however, he’s low in the esteem of literates, at least when compared to e.g. Henrik Ibsen — his contemporary, colleague and rival. Most people seem to attribute this to the purported higher literary quality of Ibsen’s works, but I consider it to be because of Bjørnson’s happy endings. Few literary classics have happy endings; most are tragedies…
Anyway, the way I see it, Bjørnson is one of the greatest Norwegians ever. He’s way greater than those overrated skiers, Nansen and Amundsen; that Danish fop, Haakon VII.; or just about anyone who’s considered as great.
Mellom Slagene
Second day of work…
… and I’ve already been exhausted for one day, even though I haven’t really started on the tasks that actually require an effort. Damn, but I wish my sister had still been here to take care of all this pre-season stress…
Oh well. I might try to convince myself that with all this work, [...]
2007-03-18 — Quote of the Day
“Men det synes jeg om, at du tager det alvorlige alvorligt; thi ellers kan du ikke le af det, som er fjas.”
- Bård Skolemester, “En Glad Gut”
(I won’t translate this one from Norwegian, as I am in no way able to do it justice in English. Feel free to make an attempt at a [...]
The Silly Little Girl And The Beast — BS1×17 Eternity
First of all, I think these episodes with Angelus, as well as the rare episodes where Angel shows his less brooding side, really shows that David Boreanaz can do more than one part. Because seriously, there’s few similarities between these characters, and although Angelus’s often somewhat overplayed, I suspect that’s the way Boreanaz’s been instructed [...]
Long time, no blog
So, more than a week since my last blog post — what have I been up to that has kept me away for so long?
To begin with, I bought “Lucifer” #9, “Morningstar”, a couple of weeks ago, and before reading it, I freshened up mu memory of what’s happened there before, by reading the first [...]
Curse upon curse upon blasphemous curse!
Today, I found out that the day the American Drama Group Europe perform Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in the Archbishop’s Palace here in Trondheim, is the second day of the Bjørnson Festival of International Literature, where I’ll be working as a volunteer. This is kinda crappy, as I’ve been looking forward to seeing the [...]
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