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  • Yver dal, yver fjell, gjenom vatn, gjenom eld, yver gras, yver grind, gjenom klunger so stinn, yver alt eg smett og kliv snøggare enn maanen sviv; eg i gras dei ringar doggar, der vaar mori dans seg voggar.

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

  • Yver dal, yver fjell, gjenom vatn, gjenom eld, yver gras, yver grind, gjenom klunger so stinn, alle stad'r eg smett og kliv snøggare enn maanen sviv; eg dogge maa dei grøne straa som vaar dronning dansar paa.

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

  • Og sprikk det fjell med toresmell, daa sunder fell kvar port so sterk.

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

  • And all the way (a horn!) from fiord to fjell his baywinds’ oboboes shall wail him rockbound (hoahoahoah!) in swimswamswum and all the livvy-long night, the delldale dalppling night, the night of bluerybells, her flittaflute in tricky trochees (O carina!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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