Logos Multilingual Portal

Select Language



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


dìxan che co-i dinæ s\'accatta tutto. Ma no l\'é vëa. Se peu accattâ da mangiâ ma no a coæ de mangiâ, e meixinn-e ma no a sanitæ, un letto sciòcco ma o seunno noe, o savei ma o sæximo no, l\'imàgine ma no o bon stâ, a demöa ma no a giromìa, e conoscense ma no l\'amixiçia, i servi ma no a fedeltæ, i cavelli grixi ma no a respettabilitæ, un pâ de giornæ quete ma no a paxe. Co-i dinæ ti peu avei a scorsa de tutto, ma a semensa noe. Quella lì co-i dinæ a no s\'accatta