Other critics have heard bleakness in the work: one early Finnish critic, Elmer Diktonius, dubbed the work the Barkbröd symphony, referring to the famine in the previous century during which starving Scandinavians had had to eat bark bread to survive.
Outros críticos escoitaron desolación na obra: un crítico temperán finlandés, Elmer Diktonius, alcumaba á obra como a sinfonía Barkbröd, referíndose á fame no século anterior durante a cal os escandinavos famentos tiveran que comer pan negro para sobrevivir.