The Greenlanders | Characters
The Greenlanders, an epic historical novel set in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century, has a vast cast of supporting characters to whom Gunnar Asgeirsson relates in the course of his sixty plus years. Gunnar however, is crucial because he is the one who records current events in writing, acts or does not act at important turning points, and tells tales of the ancestors' exploits. It is Gunnar who most fully comprehends the slow collapse of his family's and society's fortunes as natural and social disaster after disaster strikes himself, his relatives, his neighbors,...
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