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Title: The Bridal March; One Day

Author: Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Translator: Edmund Gosse

Release Date: April 3, 2006 [EBook #18110]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's note: Front matter listing the novels of BJOeRNSTJERNE
BJOeRNSON moved to end of book]

THE BRIDAL MARCH

&

ONE DAY

BY

BJOeRNSTJERNE BJOeRNSON

(_Translated from the Norwegian_)

LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1896

_BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE_

[The Bridal March _(Brude-Slaatten) was written in
Christiania in 1872. It was originally published in the second volume
of the first popular edition of Bjoernson's collected tales, issued in
Copenhagen in that year. In November 1873, a small edition was
published in separate form, and this was followed by an illustrated
issue, of which a second edition appeared in 1877._ The Bridal March
_was originally composed as the text to four designs by the Norwegian
painter, Tidemand. It was dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen._

One Day _(En Dag) was originally issued in the Norwegian
Magazine "Nyt Tidsscrift," late in 1893; and was republished in a
volume of short stories during the following year._

_E. G._]

THE BRIDAL MARCH

There lived last century, in one of the high-lying inland valleys of
Norway, a fiddler, who has become in some degree a legendary
personage. Of the tunes and marches ascribed to him, some are said to
have been inspired by the Trolls, one he heard from the devil himself,
another he made to save his life, &c., &c. But the most famous of all
is a Bridal March; and _its_ story does not end with the story of his
life.

Fiddler Ole Haugen was a poor cottar high among th