Knut Pedersen

It does not need any showing of paper, however, to establish the identity of Knut Pedersen, vagabond, with the author of Pan.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

Knut Pedersen, vagabond, wanders about the country with his tramp-companions, Grindhusen, the painter who can ditch and delve at a pinch, or Falkenberg, farm-labourer in harvest-time, and piano-tuner where pianos are.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

It is therefore with something of a shock one encounters the enigmatic Knut Pedersen from the Northlands, who has turned from literature to tramping, who speaks of old age as if he had reached the proverbial three-score and ten, and who time and again slips into something like actual whining, as when he says of himself:

Under the Autumn Star 2003

Much of the time Knut Pedersen is merely thinking aloud.

Under the Autumn Star 2003

Knut Pedersen from the Northlands, but the cautious, puzzled Knut has moments when he shows not only the Glahn limp but the Glahn fire.

Under the Autumn Star 2003

Knut Pedersen from the Northlands, who has turned from literature to tramping, who speaks of old age as if he had reached the proverbial three-score and ten, and who time and again slips into something like actual whining, as when he says of himself: "Time has worn me out so that I have grown stupid and sterile and indifferent; now I look upon a woman merely as literature."

Wanderers Knut Hamsun 1905

Much of the time Knut Pedersen is merely thinking aloud.

Wanderers Knut Hamsun 1905