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Read by MaryAnn


Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson


In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

The Bishop of Børglum and His Warriors

Read by James Koss


Hans Christian Andersen


In Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 5, 1860 to 1865

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. - Summary by Kristi…

Norway and the Union with Sweden

Read by Ærik Bjørnsson


Fridtjof Nansen



A History of the politics surrounding The Union of Norway with Sweden, from 1814-1905, from the Norwegian perspective - Summary by Æri…

A Happy Boy

Read by MaryAnn


Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson



"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjørnson's best story of peasant life. In it the aut…

Early Kings of Norway

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Thomas Carlyle



"The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fa…

The Kirk Spook

Read by Ærik Bjørnsson


Edmund Gill Swain


In The Stoneground Ghost Tales

The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country…

Dies Iræ by Thomas à Celano

Read by Sonia


Various


In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)

The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…

II: Ære Perennius

Read by Ellies


Geoffrey Bache Smith


In A Spring Harvest

G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…

The Maidens' Song

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson



Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to h…

Selected works

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Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen


In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Æsop's Trial

Read by NoelBadrian


Jefferys Taylor


In Æsop in Rhyme, with Some Originals

Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling …

Præterita

Read by Bruce Kachuk


Madison Cawein


In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 4

This is Volume 4: Poems of Mystery and of Myth and Romance of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. …

The Princess by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Read by Sonia


Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson


In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)

The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poe…

Noli æmulari

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Arthur Hugh Clough


In Selected Poems

During his short but eventful life, Arthur Hugh Clough wrote poems on subjects as varied as religious doubt, European politics and social in…

Neæra's Wreath

Read by Bruce Kachuk


Victor Daley


In At Dawn And Dusk

Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…

Mountain Song

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson



LibriVox volunteers bring you nine recordings of "Mountain Song” by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The Weekly Poem for August 31,…

The Last of the Vikings

Read by Kathrine Engan


Johan Bojer



In a small village on the coast of Northern Norway lives the Myran family. Father is a fisher man and is, in the eyes of the oldest son, lik…

A Pæan

Read by Nemo


Edgar Allan Poe


In The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe

In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from, a…

The Saga of Erik the Red (Reeves Translation)

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Unknowntranslated Byarthur Middleton Reeves, Translated Byarthur Middleton Reeves and Unknowntranslated By Arthur Middleton Reeves



The Saga of Erik the Red is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, a…

The Father by Björnstjerne Björnson (1838-1910)

Read by Phil Schempf


Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson


In Short Story Collection Vol. 070

Mysteries, fantasy, family and hardship all make appearances in this, the 70th volume of short stories in the English language, selected and…

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