The Humiliation
‘… and they steered their course towards
parts where Martin had never been, far past
Tyska Botten and Blackeberg—and there
ran the border for the known world.’
HJALMAR SÖDERBERG, MARTIN BIRCKS UNGDOM
But he, whose heart a skogsrå steals
it never will recover
His soul will long for moonlight dreams
and no mere mortal lover…
VIKTOR RYDBERG, ‘SKOGSRÅET’
(A SKOGSRÅ IS A BEAUTIFUL BUT SINISTER FOREST SPIRIT.)