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I see a gossamer thread glistening in the fire’s light,I hear the rowing of a boat in the harbour,
the Northern Lights rise against the northern sky.Oh, I give thanks by my immortal soul
that it is I who am sitting here!
Knut Hamsun (1859-1952)
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Hugeltårnet near Efjord
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I feel the Earth’s axis tilt.
I can see the sun again.
I sing a Sami song.
Ailo Gaup
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At break of daythe wonder ensues:
the Sun’s orb is raisedby hands unknown
above the horizon,set free then swaysup towards heaven.
Børvasstindan
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In reverential hope thenall life falls silent:
nature trembleson Transfiguration’s Mount.
Vilhelm Krag (1871-1923)
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Like myriad suns how it shines,
stars and clouds of gold!
See how each sun-touched gully
a full complement holds!
This gold, pure white and flaming red
streaming from the sky
shouts exulting heavenwards
that life shall never die.
Gunnar Reiss-Andersen (1896-1964)
Preikestolen / The Pulpit Rock
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Help me, singing light of the day
to find the word, the creating word,
help me, night’s embracing shade
life’s depths to fathom, its mystic code.
Help me, you loving human eyes
to mount on souls to the souls’ abode.
Sigbjørn Obstfelder (1866-1900)
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Kjeragbolten / The Kjerag Boulder, Lysefjorden
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Skoddeberg near Grovfjord
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Portrait
You stand
in the borderland
between day and night
at the diurnal crux -
this contrastful
tremulous moment
of clarifying light and
consuming dark
Ragnhild N. Grødal
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Revelva
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On frost-green sky over mountain peaks,
play tongues of fire.
Night of yearning.
Aurora night.
Flickering searchlights probe inwards - inwards
to the endless, unplumbed spaces.
Jan Magnus Bruheim (1914-1988)
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Rapadalen, Sarek
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Thanksgiving
Praise to the light
of the world in my mind,
the sun’s rising
and the gift of sight!
From embers under ashes
the fire re-awakes.
Joy lives anew
at the wonder of the day.
Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950)
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Then come, let’s light small lights for one another,fires to ward off night in a wintry world
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Reine, Lofoten
where the frost will yield when our human warmthreaches through the darkness - like lights along a fjord.
Helge Stangnes
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Trollfjorden
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In the west hang the dying traces
of the sun’s evening rays,
and clouds on clouds, like angel hosts,
with rosy face and golden wings,
lie gathered all ablaze.
In the east awaits the shining moon,
and the swooning day sinks gently down
from the radiant mountainsides.
J. S. Welhaven (1807-1873)
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This was a few pages from the bookBuy the book: www.naturkultur.no
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This was a few pages from the bookBuy the book: www.naturkultur.no