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Arne Garborg (1851-1924      

Norwegian writer of the naturalistic school. He founded the weekly Fedraheim (1877), in which he urged reforms in many spheres-political, social, religious, agrarian, and linguistic. Garborg championed the use of Nynorsk, New Norwegian, which is based on rural dialects, as a literary language; he translated the Odyssey into it. Several of his early novels presented male views in the debate on sexual morality conduted throughout the 1880s. Two outstanding novels, Tired Men (1891) and Peace (1892, tr. 1929), relate the tragic disintegration of morally bankrupt and guilt-ridden men


gellir cael pob dim am arian, medden nhw. - Na, nid gwir mo hynny. Gellir prynu bwyd, ond nid archwaeth; moddion, ond nid iechyd; gwelyau meddal, ond nid cwsg; gwybodaeth ond nid deallusrwydd; sglein, ond nid cysur; hwyl, ond nid pleser; cydnabod, ond nid cyfeillgarwch; gweision, ond nid ffyddlondeb; gwallt gwyn, ond nid anrhydedd; dyddiau tawel, ond nid heddwch. Gellir cael cragen pob dim am arian. Ond nid y cnewyllyn. Nid am arian y ceir hwnnw