The Danish Poet

00:00:11 I used to think that everybody was adopted from outer space,...

00:00:36 ...hinges on our parents' meeting.

00:01:13 Kasper was so worried about running out of ideas...

00:01:41 "What about Norway? It's cheap and they're practically Danish."

00:02:03 This is how he discovered the Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset...

00:02:42 ...barefoot and pregnant on pilgrimage to the Nidaros Cathedral.

00:03:11 "...I could use a little inpiration myself nowadays."

00:04:11 "...and I'm on my way to Lillihammer to visit her."

00:04:34 Kasper was offered food and shelter until the rain stopped.

00:05:23 "Ingeborg, you changed my life. Ingeborg please be my wife."

00:05:53 "...because she's engaged to Simon..."

00:06:12 ...lived in the shadows of guilt and regret.

00:07:31 "How can I write when I feel so sad?"

00:08:02 Ingeborg was unhappy too when she regretted that...

00:08:38 Ingeborg immediately wrote a letter to Kasper telling him...

00:09:29 ...to comb and brush it for her.

00:10:04 Sigrid Undset died.

00:10:48 Kasper was grief stricken by the death of his favorite author.

00:11:11 ...and was glad he did because there...

00:12:02 ...which was translated to all the Scandinavian languages...

00:12:29 She understood the urgency of the situation,...

00:12:57 ...and to meet his favorite poet, Kasper Jörgensen.

00:13:47 Some time later, Veslemae and Peter became my parents.

00:14:27 Transcribed from English Audio and adapted to Norwegian version by Chilekesh.