Magnhild; Dust

Magnhild; Dust is a volume from the works of Björnstjerne Björnson, translated from the Norse by Rasmus B. Anderson. The preface says Magnhild was planned during the summer of 1873, while the translator accompanied Mr. Björnson on a journey across Norway. The preface also places the story in Lærdalen, with Skarlie's home in Lærdalsören, a small town at the head of one of the branches of the far-famed Sognefjord on the west coast.

A priest in sea-boots and a skin suit says that a poor child remained standing on her feet, with her little sled in her hand, and was borne downward and across the frozen stream. A speaker tells Magnhild she has no heart and complains that when she insisted upon Magnhild's seeing her child, Magnhild did not even kiss it. A man carrying a child hastens onward, pretending not to hear a person who begs most humbly, and the same person stops the man on the footpath and takes her boy again in her arms with many loving words.