THE VISIONARY
OR
PICTURES FROM NORDLAND

BY
JONAS LIE

_TRANSLATED FROM THE NORWEGIAN_
_BY JESSIE MUIR_

WITH A PREFACE
AND
PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR

LONDON.
HODDER BROTHERS
1894


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PREFACE


Until a few years ago, Norway was an unknown country to most Englishmen.
Occasionally a sportsman went there to kill salmon or to shoot reindeer,
but the fjords, glaciers, mountains, and waterfalls were quite beyond
the reach of any but the most venturesome travellers. Still less was it
supposed that Norway possessed a modern school of poets and novelists.