Julius E. Olson
The University of Wisconsin
February, 1920
[1] Pronounced as Lee in English.
[2] Arne Garborg is one of Norway's greatest novelists. He is also a gifted lyric poet, and an exceedingly clever controversialist. Most of his works are written in Landsmaal, a composite of the peasant dialects. His biography of Lie is a classic.
[3] A peasant poet, kindred in spirit to both Burns and Heine.
[4] The composer of, among other notable things, the melody to Björnson's well-known national song. Before his death, at the age of twenty-four, he had given Edvard Grieg an electric spark from the dynamo of his Norse enthusiasm, which fired Grieg's imagination, and made him par excellence the representative of Norse melody.
THE FAMILY AT GILJE