Tore Ørjasæter

Tore Ørjasæter (born March 3, 1886, Skjåk, Norway—died February 29, 1968, Skjåk) was a Norwegian regional poet who worked in the tradition of the ballad and of folk and nature lyrics. Ørjasæter was a teacher’s son from a village in central Norway. His concern with the conflict between individual and heritage, self and other, will and destiny provides the underlying theme of his main works, Gudbrand Langleite (1913; the title is the name of the...