The first poem is from someone called Morgaine, who resides in Røros. The poem is aptly entitled wind;
The wind is blowing softly on my cheek saying I love you.
Cooling my neck, blowing my hair
Making me feel light as a feather
One with the wind, taking me home with him.
Simple, yet odd.
A more traditional Norwegian poems sounds like something out of Tolkein.
Here is the last part of The rune poem.
Man is an augmentation of the dust;
great is the claw of the hawk.
A waterfall is a River which falls from a mountain-side;
but ornaments are of gold.
Yew is the greenest of trees in winter;
it is wont to crackle when it burns.
You can't argue with that!
The final poem on this fine Tuesday comes from Mr Jan Eirik Vold, a Norwegian poet who was the biggest thing going around in the 1960s. Here is the first verse of 'The tree and the non tree'
A tree
is a tree and it never
gives
a press conference, neither when
it sways
in the wind
nor
falls in a gale.
A tree
is a tree
and one day
it is
not.
I hope you have enjoyed cultural Tuesday. Tomorrow will be back to weather talk and pensioner gossip.
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ive just spent 2 hours reading your entire blog, i hope that you continue to write because its very interesting and funny! i am considering attending the folkehøgskole in alta and i was wondering (as you mention the town so often in your blog), whether you can tell me much about the place and what it would be like to live there?
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading. Alta is the main centre for us living in western Finnmark. It is a 'big town' for those who are from the smaller surrounding districts, although there are only around 20,000 living there. It has become quite an international and modern town with a new cinema, restaurants, hotels and a new swimming centre. The airport provides the opportunity to reach european destinations direct and there is plenty of sport and a large musical and cultural scene to keep you busy. It can get quite cold in the winter, but it is definitely a very liveable little town. Be sure to say hi, if you make it up here...
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