northern lights and midnight sun
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Head for the light – head for the north! Seek out the northern lights and the midnight sun. Experience Norway’s northernmost regions, this land of mystery, in fascinating pictures and poetry. The format is 17 x 16cm hardcover. The book is available in 9 languages. Norwegian, English, Swedish, German, French, Spanish, Finnish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.TRANSCRIPT
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North
Look North more often.
Go against the wind, you’ll get ruddy cheeks.
Find the rough path. Keep to it.
It’s shorter.
North is best.
Winter’s flaming sky,
summer-night’s sun miracle.
Go against the wind. Climb mountains.
Look north.
More often.
This land is long.
Most is north.
Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994)
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Over lowland, over snow and tundra
bows are drawn, red in the morning sky.
See! The light is winning!
And the stream is streaming
towards open minds
and towards seeds dreaming
of growth.
Einar Skjæraasen (1900-1966)
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Reindeer herd, Finnmarksvidda
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Samaåsen, Harstad
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Morning air is like froth on the waves.
Day takes pleasure in balmy ease.
Evening has peace.
But only night has the universe.
André Bjerke (1918-1985)
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Now
Such a tiny word.
Now.
And yet it holds
all eternity.
Hans Børli (1918-1989)
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At night the Aurora comeswith white clothes-linesand hangs it up to dry
in the stellar wind.
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Blue-white and clean, but thin.Shirts and long shifts,
- almost like angels’ raiment.
Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994)
Storjorda, Harstad
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Frosted window
Star-swarm!
Look, there’s frost on the window. It is the stars
crackling like frozen dew on Earth’s window.
Let’s breathe on them,
extend our heart’s sign,
our young warmth to the sleeping crystals,
so they turn to tears of joy, smilingly
stream away, and allow us
a glimpse of storm-blue sky.
Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994)
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Just thin needles - It’s so thin, the light.
And there is so little of it.
Darkness is vast.Light is only thin needles
in endless night.
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The Northern Lights over Lofoten
And it has to travel so farthrough desolate space.
So let us be gentle with it.
Cherish it.So that it will return tomorrow.
Let’s hope.
Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994)
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Henningsvær
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I listen
anew:
spring sounds in my ears grow
lighter.
And the sounds are no longer
sounds only
but also light
endless days...
B. Moske
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Reine, Lofoten
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Oh I know of a land
far away to the north
with glittering sand
linking mountain and fjord.
Where I’m longing to go,
where my heart is tied so
with the finest of bands:
I remember, remember so well this dear land!
Elias Blix (1836-1902)
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And flocks of seabirds here in the north
flowers of the air become
and new-formed lies the land of hope
in the wondrous midnight sun.
Nordahl Grieg (1902-1943)
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Ekkerøy nesting clif f
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This was a few pages from the bookBuy the book: www.naturkultur.no
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This was a few pages from the bookBuy the book: www.naturkultur.no