half-swedish

Updated: June 25, 2025

"I do mind," she cried. "Go away!" I don't know what her face looked like then, but her voice was gray gray with tears and indignation. In a moment I was in the living room. The stranger was Solem. Another meeting with Solem. He was everywhere. Our eyes met. "I think you were asked to leave?" I said. "Take it easy, take it easy," he said, in a kind of half-Norwegian, half-Swedish.

Knut Hamsun - Look Back on Happiness

He sang, or more often took up afresh upon each recovery of consciousness a verse of a half-Swedish ballad about a "girl so true," that he wished he then had by his side, for the time without her seemed so long. Now and then the spray of a sea would bring him more sharply to himself, but it did not last long; and so the ditty, which was melancholy to the last degree, would begin afresh.

Jonas Lie - The Pilot and his Wife