Our Savior's Cemetery
Tree-shaded nineteenth-century burial ground with a grove of honour and grand sculpted tombs.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Our Savior's Cemetery in Oslo is about Henrik Wergeland, a poet of thirty-seven, in the summer of eighteen forty-five, confined to his sickbed with a wallflower on the window sill and poems still to write. It touches the rosebush he could not tend, the crowds of eighteen forty-five, and the Swedish Jews whose rights he had championed. Best heard standing before his Gothic canopied tomb, with the old chestnuts overhead.
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