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...when Sigrid Undset was 27. A brief, direct story, melodramatic as the folk tales on which it is modeled, it lacks both the involved psychological analyses that weight down her modern fiction, the realistic details that distinguish her historical romances. Since it is laid in the reign of King Olav, when Norway was undergoing the transition from paganism to Christianity, it also reveals Sigrid Undset's profound religious feeling, is an early expression of the devotion that was eventually to lead her to write thesis novels for the Catholic Church...
...widower, old Gunnar of Vadin had lost his faith in the old pagan gods without accepting the new Christian doctrine that Olav was spreading. In the interim, he "put all his faith in his own strength," lived to learn that his strength was not great enough. When young Ljot of Iceland arrived at Vadin on a timber-buying expedition, old Gunnar made him welcome, was not adamant when 20-year-old Ljot soon wanted to marry his only daughter. Ljot was a fatherless, headstrong, impulsive Viking. At 13 he had killed his father's murderer, become widely known both...
...international races in 1895, has been won by Canada, Scotland and Norway. Last week, a fine summer's sailing on Long Island Sound reached its climax at Seawanhaka with a three-out-of-five series in which the challenger was Norna IV, Crown Prince Olav of Norway's sleek new six-metre boat, sailed by his friend Magnus Konow. The defender, which bore the confusing name of Challenge, was sailed by Cornelius Shields...
Henry Goddard Leach, 54, A. B. A. M. Ph. D., Commander of the North Star (Sweden), Knight of St. Olav (Norway), Knight of Falcon (Iceland), and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, read over what he had written for the next issue of his Forum and found it good. It would make a whacking lead editorial...
ODIN IN FAIRYLAND-Olav Duun- Knopf...