Crossword-Solution: AASEN 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Was it certain that the classic Danish, which alone Ibsen cared to write, would continue to be the language of the cultivated classes in Norway? Here was Ivar Aasen (in 1853) showing that the irritating landsmaal could be used for prose and verse.

This language, commonly called the Landsmaal, is, at all events in its origin, the creation of one man, Ivar Aasen.

Foersom is deservedly praised for his translation of the same lines, but a comparison of the two is not altogether disastrous to Aasen, though, to be sure, his lines lack some of Foersom's insinuating softness: Tal atter, Lysets Engel! thi du straaler i Natten saa høiherlig over mig som en af Nattens vingede Cheruber for dødeliges himmelvendte Øine, etc.

Aasen busied himself for some years with this effort to naturalize his Landsmaal in all the forms of literature.

The vocabulary of the Norwegian dialects is rich in words of fairy-lore, and one who knew this word treasure as Aasen did could render the fancies of Mercutio with something very near the exuberance of Shakespeare himself: No ser eg vel, at ho hev' vore hjaa deg ho gamle Mabba, Nærkona aat Vettom.