12 Jan, 202012 Edith Södergran The Land Which Is NotLeave a Comment on Edith Södergran: The Portrait Posted By K-M Skalkenæs For my brief songs,the merrily moaning, the evening red,Spring gave me the egg of a waterfowl. I asked my beloved to paint my portrait on its thick shell.He painted a young onion in brown topsoil –and on the other side a soft round hill of sand.