Arnulf Øverland (April 27, 1889-March 25, 1968 was a Norwegian author born in Kristiansund and raised in Bergen. His works include 'Berget det blå' (1927) and 'Hustavler' (1929). April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Kristiansund, officially rewarded township status in 1742, is a town and municipality on the northwestern coast of Norway, in the Nordmøre district of county Møre og Romsdal. ... You may be looking for: Bergen, Norway Bergen, Belgium, see Mons Bergen, Hessen (Germany) Bergen, Lower Saxony (Germany) Bergen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany) Bergen, Limburg (Netherlands) Bergen, North Holland (Netherlands) (comprising Bergen aan Zee) Bergen (town), New York (United States) Bergen (village), New York (United States) Bergen, Wisconsin (United States... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Øverland was a communist from the early 1920s, but changed his stand in 1937 partly as a reaction to the Moscow Trials. He was an avid opposer to nazism and in 1937 he wrote the poem 'Du må ikke sove!" ('You must not sleep') as a reaction to the Spanish civil war. It ends with 'Jeg tenkte: Nu er det noget som hender. Vår tid er forbi - Europa brenner' ('I thought: Now something is happening - Our time is past - Europe in flames'). Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Moscow Trials were a series of trials of political opponents of Joseph Stalin during the Great Purge. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... History of Spain Series Prehistoric Spain Roman Spain Medieval Spain Age of Reconquest Age of Expansion Age of Enlightenment Reaction and Revolution First Spanish Republic The Restoration Second Spanish Republic Spanish Civil War The Dictatorship Modern Spain Topics Economic History Military History Social History The Spanish Civil War (July 1936...

In 1933 Øverland was tried for blasphemy after giving a speech named Kristendommen - den tiende landeplage ('Christianity - the tenth plague'), but was acquitted. 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of God or the gods, and by extension any display of gross irreverence towards any person or thing deemed worthy of exalted esteem. ... Christianity is the worlds largest religion. ... Plague redirects here. ...

After the Second World War Øverland became a noted supporter for the conservative written form of Norwegian called 'Riksmål', he was president of 'Riksmålsforbundet' (an organization in support of Riksmål) from 1947-1956. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Norwegian is a Germanic language spoken in Norway. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In addition, Øverland adhered to the traditionalist style of writing, criticising modernist poetry on several occasions. Mountebanks ...

External Links

• 'Du må ikke sove!' (http://www.barnasrett.no/Dikt/du_ma_ikke_sove.htm)