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Historien er veien som er tilbakelagt.

Arne Ruste

En dag er veien søndersprengt. Ved historiens ende star vi og spør:

Når var det bløte regent
når var den legende solen
Når var den stødige vinden
den svale vinden
Når var stillheten stillhet
mettet av beskjeder
Når var de hundre tårnenes by
den økumeniske byen Sarajevo?

En dag du gikk ut
i det strømmende regent
fikk du eddik i øynene
En dag var solen et sår
En dag nappet vinden
i frakken din som en fremmen
antaster deg på gaten
En dag var stillheten forferdende
taushet.

En dag var den vakreste av byer,
den økumeniske byen Sarajevo,
nedslagsfelt
for mistro og hat.

Regnet svir I øynene, solen
som var venn, er fienden og brer seg
som et ulegelig sår.
Den epileptiske vinden, uberegnelig
som snikskytterprosjektiler.

Den forferdende stillheten, taus
som et midlertidig ildopphør
I det utbrente bibliotekets by,
Romeo og Juliettas by,
de hundre tårnenes by, Sarajevo
som ble tårens by
ved historiens slutt,
der alt kan begynneaug.

aug. 1993 – 1. mai 1999


Arne Ruste

from Søsken for en tid (Tiden Norsk Forlag, 2001)

Reproduced by permission of the author and translator.

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Norwegian Shetlandic Shetlandic Translations

Translations of this Poem

History is da rod left ahint wis.

Translator: Christine De Luca


Wan day da rod is blaan ta smiddereens. At history’s end we staand and akse:

Whan wis da smaa smoor
whan da helt-gien sun
whan wis da canny sough
da caller sough
Whan wis da stillness a stillness
foo o soonds
whan was da ceety o a hunder to’ers
da ecumenical ceety o Sarajevo?

Eence du gud oot
in a day o distress
an got acid i dy een
Ee day da sun wis bellin
Ee day da wind rived
at dy cott, ram-stam, lik an uncan boady
apö da street
Ee day da stillness wis a faersome
silence

Ee day dat boanniest o ceeties,
da ecumenical ceety o Sarajevo,
wis a firin place
fur jalousin an ill will

Noo da tömald scooders dy een
da cosh sun is an enemy an spreads
lik an oppen sore
Da mantin wind is, lik sniper’s bullets,
fae aa erts, whanivver

Da faersome stillness da silence
o a passin truce
i da ceety o da brunt-oot library,
Romeo and Juliet’s ceety,
da ceety o a hunder to’ers, Sarajevo
at cam ta be da ceety o gowlin
at da end o history,
whaar aathin can begin.

aug. 1993 – 1. may 1999

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Arne Ruste lives in Son, a small fishing village in the neighbourhood of Oslo. One of the most prominent contemporary Norwegian poets, he is also a translator and reviewer.
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