“Atter og fram, det er lige langt;—
ud og ind, det er lige trangt!”
[57]. “Med lempe,” literally “by gentleness” or “easy-goingness.” “Quiescence” is somewhere near the idea.
ACT THIRD.
SCENE FIRST.
Deep in the pine-woods. Grey autumn weather. Snow is falling.
Peer Gynt stands in his shirt-sleeves, felling timber.
Peer.
[Hewing at a large fir-tree with twisted branches.]