The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

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The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas: Episode 1

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By Tarjei Vesaas. Siss visits the new girl, Unn, at her home for the first time.

By Tarjei Vesaas. Knowing little about her, Siss visits the new girl, Unn, at her home for the first time.

When the waterfall freezes it creates the Ice Palace, a strange, magical ice-structure of chambers, trees and towers.

It already fascinates Siss, an 11-year-old girl, and her school-friends. And it fascinates a new girl, Unn, even more.

Episode One
Knowing little about her, Siss visits the new girl, Unn, at her home for the first time.

Tarjei Vesaas was born in 1897 in Vinje, Telemark in southern Norway. He wrote more than 25 novels, of which The Ice Palace, published in 1963, is probably his best-known. He died, also in Vinje, in 1970.

Writer: Tarjei Vesaas
Translator: Elizabeth Rokkan
Reader: Greta Scacchi
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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When the waterfall freezes it creates a strange, magical structure - the Ice Palace.

When the waterfall freezes it creates a strange, magical structure - the Ice Palace. It already fascinates Siss and her school friends. And it fascinates new girl Unn even more.

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