This is the actual landscape setting for his epic 1917 novel "Markens grøde" ("Growth of the Soil") which won him the Nobel prize in literature.
I spent a summer here as a botanist working for the University of Tromsø. One understands the toil and misery the characters in his novel went through.
It's been about forty years since I read his books, all of which were translated into Spanish. He was the writer of my childhood. I remember stories of places near Bergen, the fjords, herring fishing in rowboats, and a beach that had very heavy stones that later became a mine. Thousands of stories. With Hamsun, I flew over your land.
