Hans Børli

[citation needed] Hans Georg Nilsen Børli was born in Eidskog Municipality in Hedmark county, Norway.

However, the positive effects of living close to nature, the wisdom of tradition and the solidarity between workers also had a significant bearing on his writings.

A strict Christian pietist upbringing would leave Børli forever struggling with the counteractive forces of rebellion and a deeply embedded sense of religious longing.

His writings were a characteristic blend of traditional and free form, romance and realism, perversion, seriousness, social awareness and religious quest.

Ole Gundersen Børli (1860–1945), his mother's father was considered one of the last great oral narrator of legends and stories of the area.