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ODIN IN FAIRYLAND-Olav Duun- Knopf...
Queen Maud spends much of her time in her native land (Crown Prince Olav of Norway was born in England, went to Oxford). But emphatically the Norwegian people do not consider their Royal Family "strangers." Money for the Jubilee celebration was unhesitatingly voted by the municipality of Oslo, Socialist though...
...Norway they write long novels. The Son Avenger, although complete in itself, is only the fourth and last section of The Master of Hestviken, life story of Olav Audunsson. In long words it might be called the definitive section of an historical tetralogy...
...every schoolboy who has read the first three novels knows, Authoress Undset's scene is medieval (14th Century) Norway, her people medieval Norse Christians violent in action, grim of conscience. In this instalment old Hero Olav has withered into the sere & yellow, but he is still master in his own house, who can save himself much speech by an occasional frown. Unconfessed sins have darkened Olav's mind. His dead wife's bastard son. Eirick, is a living reminder of the murder of his wife's betrayer. Eirick, son avenger of the title, never learns the secret of his birth...
...live the King!" Few minutes afterwards the Swedish kust-pansarfartyg (coast-defense-ship) Oscar II landed H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Because a daughter has just been born to his wife, and because just before that their residence burned to the ground, H. R. H. Crown Prince Olav of Norway sent his "regrets" to Iceland last week by the Norwegian Defense minister who arrived on a panserskibe (coast-defense battleship. In a British naval "barge"-and nothing is quite so spanking-smart and snobbish as a British naval barge-there landed from the Rodney that recently created peer...