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Title: Strife and Peace

Author: Fredrika Bremer

Release Date: December 21, 2006 [eBook #20156]

Language: English

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Fredrika Bremer's Works.

STRIFE AND PEACE.

Translated by Mary Howitt.

London:
Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden.
1853.

CONTENTS

OLD NORWAY
HEIMDAL.
THE POULTRY. THE WATER OF STRIFE.
FIRST STRIFE.
MRS. ASTRID.
THE BREWHOUSE.
THE GARRET.
THE DAIRY.
EVENING HOURS.
CHRISTMAS.
QUIET WEEKS.
A MAY DAY.
SPRING FEELINGS.
MAN AND WIFE.
A FRESH STRIFE.
ALETTE.
AN EVENING IN THE SITTING-ROOM.
RETREATING AND ADVANCING.
A GLANCE INTO NORDLAND.
THE RETURN.
THE HALLING.
AASGAARDSREIJA.
THE MOUNTAIN JOURNEY.
THE AWAKENING.
THE LAST STRIFE.
AN AFTER-WORD.

STRIFE AND PEACE.

OLD NORWAY.

Still the old tempests rage around the mountains,
And ocean's billows as of old appear;
The roaring wood and the resounding fountains
Time has not silenced in his long career,
For Nature is the same as ever.

MUNCH.

The shadow of God wanders through Nature.

LINNAEUS.

Before yet a song of joy or of mourning had gone forth from the valleys
of Norway--before yet a smoke-wreath had ascended from its huts--before
an axe had felled a tree of its woods--before yet king Nor burst forth
from Jotunhem to seek his lost sister, and passing through the land gave
to it his name; nay, before _yet_ there was a Norwegian, stood the high
Dovre mountains with snowy summits before the face of the Creator.

Westward stretches itself out the gigantic mountain chain as far as
Romsdahlshorn, whose foot is bathed by the Atlantic ocean. Southward it
forms under various names (Langfjeld, Sognefjeld, Filefjeld,
Hardangerfjeld, and so forth),