Mike’s Comments (group member since Oct 28, 2021)

In the first few days, like a melody one will become infatuated with but that one cannot yet make out, what I was to love so much in his style was not apparent to me. I could not put down the novel I was by him, but thought I was interested only in the subject, as in that first period of love when you go to meet a woman every day at some gathering, some entertainment, thinking you are drawn to it by its pleasures. Then I noticed the rare, almost archaic expressions he liked to use at certain moments, when a hidden wave of harmony, an inner prelude, would heighten his style; and it was also at these moments that he would speak of the 'vain dream of life', the 'inexhaustible torrent of beautiful appearances', the 'moving effigies that for ever ennoble the venerable and charming facades of our cathedrals', that he expressed an entire philosophy, new to me, through marvellous images which seemed themselves to have awakened this harp-song which then arose and to whose accompaniment they gave a sublime quality.

Egil and Asgerd had children whose names were these: Bodvar was their first son, and Gunnar the second, and their daughters were Thorgerd and Bera. Their youngest was Thorstein. All Egil's children were promising and intelligent. Thorgerd was the eldest of Egil's children, followed by Bera.