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psychological phenomena. Novels of a somewhat similar nature
were also written by Fru [[** sic]] Anna Munch, Frøken [[** sic]] Alvilde Prydz,
Bernt Lie and Peter Egge. The gently vibrating humour with
which the last named has also drawn little pictures of the life
of unimportant people, has appeared in Hans Aanrud in full
maturity. This author’s short and clearly drawn studies of the
people of his native district, constitute a series of incomparable
works; while his exuberant comedy, «Storken» (The Stork), denotes
the entry of hearty laughter into our usually so solemn theatre.
Hans Kinck, with more exciting and deeper fancy, but without
that inborn assurance in his sensitiveness for style, has painted
his richly-coloured pictures of the cultural awakening going on in
remote country districts. His lyrical inspirations when describing
the terror of the lonely waste, the outbreak of the devil in the
human nature, the rush of longing, the intoxicating song of the
summer air, no less than his undaunted courage in sounding the
depths of disordered souls, have given him a prominent place
among those young artists who will give its character to the first
literary phase of the new century.
The stern epic writer Tryggve Andersen occupies a special
position in the large group whose most important representatives
have already been briefly described. In his youthful lyrical writings
he revealed indeed a closer relationship with the dominating
tendency of the artistic views of this group; but in his great historical
romance: «Fra Kancelliraadens dage» (From the Chancery
Counsellors Days) (1897) he also shows a natural disposition for
objective description in plain narrative.
In concluding this short survey, we enter upon a field of
literature which has nothing to do with passing moods and feelings,
but consists either of a statement of facts, or of argumentative
criticism. We may then remark that at the very beginning of the
present generation, Ernst Sars, in his intellectual «Udsigt over
det norske folks historie» (A Survey of the History of the
Norwegian People) and Joh. P. Weisse (died 1886) in his fascinating
lives of the Roman Cæsars, began to apply an artistic treatment
of accounts based upon detailed scientific research. The same course
was followed by the literature and art historian, Lorentz
Dietrichson, by Sophus Bugge in his original interpretation of the «Edda»,
by Wergeland’s biographer, Hartvig Lassen (died 1897), by Olaf
Skavlan (died 1891) in his commentaries on Holberg and
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