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...fourth U. S. installment of The People of Juvik, a six-volume Norwegian "saga," Author Duun's story tells of young Odin's adventures in a fairyland whose marches lie more in his own nature than in the Norwegian countryside. Though he is only a bastard Juviking, enough corpuscles of that great family's blood tingle in his veins to make them burn intermittently with mischievous, heroic, un earthly music...
...little Odin is taken by his mother to work as herdboy for Bendek and his strange dark wife Gurianna at Kjelvik on the sea. On that lonely farm where, frosty winter evenings, the housedog runs barking at some invisible menace along the blackened beach, Odin works hard to be a man like Bendek in the inhuman countryside. Once, out picking cloud berries, he is attacked by mountain trolls. He beats them off with a switch, only to find that they are the Jörnstrand boys from over the hill. And so he meets their sister Karen-Anna...
Bendek, besides being a real man, is also something of a thief. Odin can put up with his stealing fish from other folks' nets, but when Bendek impounds a neighbor's ram to slaughter it, Odin sets it free. Bendek admires that kind of spirit - "he can be whatever he chooses, par son or pirate, that one" - but he has not so much of it as Odin. On a dare from the Jörnstrand boys Odin takes Bendek's bewitched otter-gun, shoots a grey troll-creature that appears on an island offshore. When Bendek discovers...
...lives at Vennestad with her husband Iver who is none too pleased to take her bastard into their home. But out of loyalty to his mother Odin keeps the home fires burning cool. His Juviking father, Otte Vetran, returned from America, has settled in the neighborhood. He makes a quiet living at cabinetmaking, preaches, lives a strange philosophy-"Resist not evil!" Towards him Odin, in spite of his love for his mother and Karen-Anna, is irresistibly drawn. After a series of boyish escapades, capped by a miraculous escape from drowning, Odin leaves home to join his father...
...ODIN IN FAIRYLAND-Olav Duun- Knopf...