Nine Blossoming Briar Shoots)[1] is a collection of poems by Henrik Wergeland, published in April 1842,[2] as a contribution to the struggle for the Jews' right to reside in Norway.

[3] The book is a collection of poems and short prose, and it opens with the following dedication:[2] Norges Storting helliges disse Medfölelsens Udgydelser for den berömte, fortjente, ulykkelige Green af Menneskeslægten, hvis fremtidige Forhold til Fædrelandet det skal afgjöre.

These sympathetic outpourings favoring the famous, deserving, unhappy branch of humanity are dedicated to Norway's Parliament, which must decide its future relationship to the Fatherland.

The first and last poem in the collection address general issues related to the fight for what is right, and the conviction that it is useful, even if the visible results can often seem small and the enemy invincible.

[4][5] "Skibbrudet" (The Shipwreck) is based on an actual event, when a young Jew was thrown ashore on the coast of Hordaland in 1841, and the authorities reacted by sending him out again, with faster processing than any asylum seeker today would have received.