From Copenhagen, Herr Björnson returned to Norway, and was for two years manager of the theatre at Bergen, occupying most of the time in the training of actors. Thence he went, with his young wife, again to Christiana, where he for some months edited Aftenbladet, one of the leading Norwegian journals.

Relative to Herr Björnson's subsequent life and labors, there is but very little available information.

Of our own part in the following pages, we have but to say we have earnestly endeavored to deal faithfully and reverently with Herr Björnson's work, and to render nearly every passage as fully and literally as the construction of the two languages permits. The only exceptions are two very short, and comparatively very unimportant passages, which we have ventured to omit, because we believed they would render the book less acceptable to English readers.

London, June, 1866.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

  1. [How the Cliff was Clad] 11
  2. [A Cloudy Dawn] 15
  3. [Seeing an old Love] 24
  4. [The Unlamented Death] 34
  5. ["He had in his Mind a Song"] 42
  6. [Strange Tales] 48
  7. [The Soliloquy in the Barn] 55
  8. [The Shadows on the Water] 60
  9. [The Nutting-Party] 68
  10. [Loosening the Weather-Vane] 83
  11. [Eli's Sickness] 95
  12. [A Glimpse of Spring] 104
  13. [Margit Consults the Clergyman] 112
  14. [Finding a lost Song] 122
  15. [Somebody's future Home] 131
  16. [The Double Wedding] 147