The Visionary

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Excerpt from The Visionary: Or Pictures From Nordland, With a Preface and Portrait of the AuthorUntil a few years ago, Norway was an unknown country to most Englishmen. Occasionally a sports man went there to kill salmcn or to shoot reindeer, but the fjords, glaciers, mountains, and waterfalls were quite beyond the reach of any but the most venturesome travellers. Still less was it supposed that Norway possessed a modern school of poets and novelists. Wergeland, Welhaven, Munch, and Moe among the former, Bjomson, Ibsen, Kjelland, and Lie among the latter, were, as far as Englishmen were concerned, to fortune and to fame unknown. All this has been changed, sportsmen now complain that it becomes more difficult every year to hire rivers. Tourists swarm over the country from the Naze to the North Cape. Ibsen's dramas are played in London theatres, and his novels, and those of Bjornson and Lie, are read in Germany and in France, as well as in England and America.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.