Weird Tales from Northern Seas

by Jonas Lie

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Weird Tales from Northern Seas is by Jonas Lie, from the Danish by R. Nisbet Bain, with twelve illustrations by Laurence Housman. The preface says that Jonas Lie excels when he describes the wild seas of Northern Norway, and the stern and hardy race of sailors and fishers who seek their fortunes, and so often find their graves, on those dangerous waters. A story has Elias and those with him sail homewards in their new boat, with eight miles of sea to sail over and a gale gradually blowing up.

A man in the text remembers quite well how his brother had sat and cobbled away at a sheath, takes the belt away with him and says nothing about it, for it was no good giving pain to no purpose, thought he. The text says that towards Christmas time, when folks were making ready to go a-fishing, Madame was busy betimes and bustled about as usual, and got the great caldron taken down into the working-room for washing and wool-stamping.

About the author

Jonas Lie

Jonas Lie (1833-1908) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright counted among the four great writers of nineteenth-century Norway, alongside Ibsen, Bjornson, and Kielland. He drew on his coastal upbringing and the folklore of the north to write realist novels shaded with the supernatural.