Word: rolvaag
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...Rolvaag's Translation...
GIANTS IN THE EARTH-O. E. Rolvaag-Harper ($2.50). Over the wide grass lands the wind walked, making cat's-paws on a green ocean. Beret sat on the prairie schooner, staring at immensity, feeling the nostalgia that comes to those who voyage on desert places, land or water. Her husband, Per Hansa, walked through the waves, talking to the horses, to Olamund, their son. Beret looked at the dry and lonely sea. Even after the arrival in Dakota Territory, remembering her Minnesota village, she felt this loneliness closing around her. The sky and the green floor made no familiar...