Dangerous wooing
Dangerous wooing , also a dangerous free party and dangerous rendezvous ( Norwegian Et farlig frieri , also Ei faarleg Friing ) is a short story by the Norwegian Nobel Prize winner for literature Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson from 1860.
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By the Norwegian fjords : In spring Aslaug, the daughter of the farmer Knud Huseby, moves the cattle to the Huseby Alm. As soon as the beautiful girl yodels up on the heights on the weekend , this song has an attractive effect on many a wealthy farm owner's son in the valley. The well-to-do gentlemen fail one after the other because of the Kätner son Tore Nässet. In a duel, none of the powerful fists of Aslaug's lover could match Tore. Aslaug's father does not agree with the future son-in-law, who comes from a humble background. Thereupon: "If I don't get the gate, there will be no more happy day in the world for me."
The only path to the Huseby-Alm leads through the farm of old Knud Huseby. On the way to his sanctuary, Tore is held up by Knud and his two sons and beaten until blood flows. Knud Huseby gives the softly beaten man a word of consolation on his way home: "If you manage to slip away ... next Saturday, you should have the girl."
Tore manages it. Next Saturday he rowed the boat on the fjord to the foot of the steep rock face, at the top of which Aslaug's Alm extends. The climber arrives at his bride's house completely exhausted. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson describes the arrival as follows: “... then the red cap was already visible over the edge of the rock, and a moment later Tore was on her [Aslaug's] chest. He lay there for a whole minute ... and what he finally stammered was senseless. ”But Auslaug's father, a man with a sense and understanding, keeps his word.
Silent movie
- In 1919, Rune Carlsten filmed the story in Sweden with Lars Hanson as Tore Nässet, Gull Cronvall as Aslaug and Theodor Blick as Knud Huseby.
German-language editions
- Thomas Schäfer (Ed.): Björnstjerne Björnson: Selected works. Paul Oestergaard , Berlin 1910. Vol. 1: Village stories: The girl from the Sonnenhof. Arne . Loyalty. Dangerous wooing . The bear hunter. The eagle's nest. Railroad and cemetery. The wedding song.
- A dangerous free play in: Ulrich Huse (editor), Bernhard Pollmann (editor): Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: Stories. Contemporary translations from Norwegian . 220 pages. Harenberg Communication , Dortmund 1985, ISBN 3-88379-845-2
Used edition
- Dangerous wooing pp. 125–131 in Björnstjerne Björnson. The wedding song. Stories. After the edition by Wilhelm Schäfer . Hinstorff Verlag Rostock 1962 (249 pages, 1st edition)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Year of publication (Norwegian) ( Memento from September 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Edition used, p. 129, 8. Zvo
- ↑ Edition used, p. 128, 4th Zvu
- ↑ Edition used, p. 131, 8. Zvu
- ^ Swedish rune Carlsten
- ↑ eng. Dangerous wooing
- ↑ Dangerous courtship in the IMDb