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...County Sheriff Knut Kruse, "people seem to be different during winter. They become edgy, complaining, sour. They long for the light, talk about the darkness, condemn it. They display much more of a 'couldn't care less' attitude." In Tromsø, reports Psychiatrist Harald Reppesgaard of Asgard Mental Hospital, "the whole city slows down. People's concentration and work capacity are reduced, and they are always tired." Adds R. Kaare Rodahl, an Oslo physiologist who has done research in the Arctic: "The polar night has a tendency to bring out the least desirable elements in human...
...time to go to work or whether I can go on sleeping. During mørketiden, I am dependent on my watch; the clock of nature is not working right." One youth became so deranged after four days of sleeplessness that he had to be admitted to Asgard Mental Hospital. There he could barely speak, shivered with apprehension, recognized no one and believed he had been poisoned-yet woke up recovered after a long, drug-induced sleep...
...could watch red-headed Lewis Rubenstein, '30, painting on the damp, freshly plastered walls of the entrance hall scenes from the "Neibelungenlied" and the old "Icelandic Edda". And stirring scenes they are. "Wars are waged, blood is shed, and evil grows greater . . . The giants have gathered to attack Asgard." Frey, the traitorous Loki, and Thor, with his mighty workman's hammer, battle on the bridge Bilfrost, which "is built of air and water, and is protected by red fire flaming on its edge...
...scene represents the final battle between the Gods and Giants. The giants have gathered to attack Asgard, the home of the Gods. They are shown on the bridge, Biforst, which is built of air and water and is protected by red fire flaming on its edge. The frost giants and mountain giants ever seek to capture the bridge so they may ascend to Asgard and overcome the gods...
...between Gods and Giants is taking place, with the Gods ranged on the left, armed with spears and halberds, facing the Giants on the right, who are fitted out with gas masks, cylinders and a flame thrower. Mr. Rubenstein is attempting to represent the attack of the Giants on Asgard, the home of the Gods, where such a great struggle took place that the earth trembled, and wiped out the existing race. This animated scene has been translated by commotion-seekers into the attack of Nazidom on the Church. The origin of this fantastic idea is the minute cross-shaped...