Note 1 — Introduction

Pronounced as Lee in English.

2 Arne Garborg is one of Norway's greatest novelists. He is also a gifted lyric poet, and an exceedingly clever controversialist. Most of his works are written in Landsmaal, a composite of the peasant dialects. His biography of Lie is a classic.

3 A peasant poet, kindred in spirit to both Burns and Heine.

4 The composer of, among other notable things, the melody to Björnson's well-known national song. Before his death, at the age of twenty-four, he had given Edvard Grieg an electric spark from the dynamo of his Norse enthusiasm, which fired Grieg's imagination, and made him par excellence the representative of Norse melody.