The Project Gutenberg eBook, Strife and Peace, by Fredrika Bremer, Translated by Mary Howitt

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

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.
Linnæus.

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), that stupendous mountainous district which in a stretch of a