«WAT vul aig bli». Linguistic socio-political landscapes in Øyvind Rimbereid’s poetry

In the poem Solaris korrigert (2004, Solaris Corrected), Øyvind Rimbereid (b. 1966) combines Stavanger dialect with English, German, Dutch, Old Norse, and offshore jargon, crafting a polyglot poetic idiom foregrounding linguistic and ecological transformations linked to petro-capitalism. This article argues that Rimbereid’s linguistic experimentation exposes how globalization and fossil extraction reshape local identities and unsettle national language. Employing Refsum’s concepts of de- and re-territorialization, I read Rimbereid’s language as a petro-archive, where dialectal shifts record ecological and socio-political damage. By combining speculative eco-dystopian imaginaries with multilingual hybridity, Solaris korrigert engages the Anthropocene’s temporalities, remapping place, power, and identity within contemporary Nordic literature.