History Literature / TerjeVigen

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Terje delivers a brilliant one to the British lord. And then by understatement, [[MomentOfAwesome to the British Empire!]]

The poem has also adapted into a film in 1917 by the Swedish director Victor Sjöström. The film, which was the most expensive Swedish film at that time, proved to be influential in itself as it is often credited as the start of the Golden Age of Swedish film.

This poem was reckoned somewhat a national treasure, and was obligatory to all Norwegian school children for many years. Full text in English is to be read [[http://www.sitater.com/home/ibsen/vigen/idx_eng.htm here]]:

* {{Badass}}: You have to be a badass when you manage the trip from Denmark to Norway in a nutshell of a boat, using only two oars and your own hands - in ''three days''!. Consider that a regular naval vessel used a ''week'' on the same trip, using sails. Handwaved in the poem:
--> "He thought it best to leave sail and mast at home..."

'''Terje Vigen''' is the best known narrative poem from the hand of {{Henrik Ibsen}}, written in 1865. It is set during UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars and tells the story of a fisherman trying to break the British blocade of 1809, rowing all the way to Denmark to feed his starving family. The Britons spot him, capture him and keeps him for five years in prison, until he is sent home in 1814. By this time his family is long dead, and Terje lives his life alone as a pilot.

'''Terje Vigen''' is the best known narrative poem from the hand of {{Henrik Ibsen}}, written in 1865. It is set during the {{Napoleonic Wars}} and tells the story of a fisherman trying to break the British blocade of 1809, rowing all the way to Denmark to feed his starving family. The Britons spot him, capture him and keeps him for five years in prison, until he is sent home in 1814. By this time his family is long dead, and Terje lives his life alone as a pilot.

* NapoleonicWars
* NavalBlockade: The historical seven year blockade posed on Norway by UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire during the NapoleonicWars. Lampshaded and dated in the poem, underscoring the beginning of the direst years - 1809.

* NavalBlockade: The historical seven year blockade posed on Norway by TheBritishEmpire during the NapoleonicWars. Lampshaded and dated in the poem, underscoring the beginning of the direst years - 1809.

* NavalBlockade
* NotTooProudToBeg: Terje Vigen breaks down and cries his eyes out, praying for the sake of his family, when he is captured by the British vessel. Doubles as a TearJerker.

* DefeatMeansFriendship
* EvilBrit.

* {{Badass}}: You have to be a badass when you manage the trip from Denmark to Norway in a nutshell of a boat, using only two oars and your own hands. Consider that a regular naval vessel used a ''week'' on the same trip, using sails. Handwaved in the poem:

* BittersweetEnding.

* {{Badass}}: You have to be a badass when you manage the trip from Denmark to Norway in a nutshell of a boat, using only to oars and your own hands. Consider that a regular naval vessel used a ''week'' on the same trip, using sails.

* IAmWhatIAm: "Because you made me so". In the end, Terje accepts the story of his life as it turned out.

* {{Awesome}}: Possibly the most crowning moment in Norwegian literature, when Terje is recognized by the English lord:
-->A deed half-lost in the memory
-->like a lightning the lord's face swept-
-->he knew, now, the sailor that on his knees
-->had crouched on his deck and wept.
-->Then cried Terje Vigen 'You held my all
-->in your hand, it was spent on renown.
-->One moment longer and vengeance will fall - -'
-->'Twas then that the pilot, the Norseman, stood tall
-->while the proud English lord knelt down.

* VengeanceIsSweet

'''Terje Vigen''' is the best known narrative poem from the hand of {{Henrik Ibsen}}. It is set during the {{Napoleonic Wars}} and tells the story of a fisherman trying to break the British blocade of 1809, rowing all the way to Denmark to feed his starving family. The Britons spot him, capture him and keeps him for five years in prison, until he is sent home in 1814. By this time his family is long dead, and Terje lives his life alone as a pilot.

This poem was reckoned somewhat a national treasure, and was obligatory to all Norwegian school children for many years.

* ManlyTears: Terje sheds one single tear in the last part of the play.

* {{WoodenShipsAndIronMen}}