Terje Vigen

«There lived a remarkably grizzled man
on the uttermost, barren isle
he never harmed, in the wide world's span,
a soul by deceit or by guile;
his eyes, though, sometimes would blaze and fret
most when a storm was nigh,-
and then people sensed he was troubled yet
and then there were few that felt no threat
with Terje Vigen by. (...)»

Terje Vigen, Henrik Ibsen

Terje Vigen, Victor Sjöström (1917)