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Tore Ørjasæter

Norwegian poet
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Born:
March 3, 1886, Skjåk, Norway
Died:
February 29, 1968, Skjåk (aged 81)

Tore Ørjasæter (born March 3, 1886, Skjåk, Norway—died February 29, 1968, Skjåk) was a Norwegian regional poet who worked in the tradition of the ballad and of folk and nature lyrics. Ørjasæter was a teacher’s son from a village in central Norway. His concern with the conflict between individual and heritage, self and other, will and destiny provides the underlying theme of his main works, Gudbrand Langleite (1913; the title is the name of the poet’s alter ego), Brumillom (1920; “The Bridge Between”), and Skuggen (1927; “The Shadow”), which were published as an epic lyric trilogy in a revised edition ...(100 of 189 words)

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