Landsmaal

This language, commonly called the Landsmaal, is, at all events in its origin, the creation of one man, Ivar Aasen.

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

Landsmaal was to strike root, it must take into account not merely "the purest dialects" but the speech of the whole country.

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

We cannot enter upon this subject; we can but point out that this movement was born almost with Landsmaal itself, and that, after Aasen's fragments, the first

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

His criticism of the poetry of Ivar Mortensen is one long variation of this theme -- the immaturity of Landsmaal.

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

Landsmaal of the fairy scenes in _A Midsummer Night's Dream_.

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

Norwegian as any other Norwegian dialect, and in its literary form it is, in a sense, more Norwegian than the literary Landsmaal, for the language of Bjørnson has grown up gradually on Norwegian soil; the language of Ivar Aasen is not yet acclimatized.

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

More important are the Landsmaal translations beginning with Ivar

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

Aasen would have replied that Hamlet's words are themselves colloquial; but the English conveys no such connotation of easy speech as does the Landsmaal to a great part of the Norwegian people.

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

They were earnest and, in the case of Aasen, successful attempts to show that Landsmaal was adequate to the most varied and remote of styles.

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

Aasen knew that Landsmaal was adequate to the expression of the homely and familiar.

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913