given dignity to the household, and united its members in a
common bond of love. Hither have come streams of guests,
friends old and new, to enjoy his generous hospitality. There
has been provision for all, both bed and board, and the heartiest
of welcomes from the host. And the stranger from abroad has
been greeted, as like as not, by the sight of his own country's
flag streaming from a staff before the house, and foreshadowing
the personal greeting that awaited him upon the threshold.

Bjornson died in Paris (where he had been spending the
winter, as was his custom for many years past), April 26, 1910.
He had been ill for several months, and only an extraordinarily
robust constitution enabled him to make a partial recovery from
the crisis of the preceding February, when his death had been
hourly expected. The news of his death occasioned demonstrations
of grief not only in his own country, but also throughout the
civilized world. Every honor that a nation can bestow upon
its illustrious dead was decreed him by King and Storthing;
a warship was despatched to bear his remains to Christiania,
and the pomp and circumstance of a state funeral acclaimed the
sense of the nation's loss.




LIST OF WORKS.

SYNNOVE SOLBAKKEN. Fortaelling, 1857
MELLEM SLAGENE. Drama, 1858
ARNE. Fortaelling, 1858