ABSTRACT
[The project is] my ultimate answer to that great Nordic enigma of the lost land – the lost time, first and foremost. The fact that we have lived and things disappear through our hands. We as Nordic people are prone to going around pondering and dreaming and thinking – about the future, too – and we are not so good at living in the moment, as we are, by nature, dreamers. The Nordic myth, which there are so many answers to, primarily in Johannes V. Jensen but also in Scandinavian literature in general with, for instance, Niels Lyhne, Lykkeper, Jergen Stein, Per Gynt, Hamsun’s Pan, and innumerable others, has dealt with the almost tragically unhappy Nordic people who cannot live in the moment but have to get out in to time. 2
