The People of Juvik (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, European Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Olav Duun
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social chronicle
- Time of Work: 1800-1918
- Setting: Namdal district, Norway
- Principal Characters: Per Anders Juvika, Ane, Jens, Per, Ane, Aasel, Beret, Valborg, Anders Haaberg, Petter, Solvi, Massi, Per, Gjartru, Aasel, Jens, Beret, Ola, Johan Arnesen, Mina, Arthur Ween, Kristen Folden, Peder, Elen, Marjane, Andrea Ween, Astri, Lauris, Otte Setran, Odin, Iver Vennestad, Bendek Kjelvik, Gurianna, Ingri Arnesen, Anders, Per, Engelbert Olsen
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, Suicide, Twentieth century, Superstition, Blindness or blind persons, Marriage, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Farms, farmers, or farming, Eighteenth century, Death or dying, Ambition, Weddings, Norway or Norwegians
- Locales: Norway
The Story:
The first Juviking was Per, a crofter from the south. After a fight with his landlord, he bought the Juvik farm along the fjord. Later his landlord’s daughter went to live with him, but they never married.
Little was known about their sons. In the third generation, the owner of the farm was nicknamed Bear Anders because he had killed a great black beast with an ax. His son was Big Per, so strong that he once saved horse, sledge, and rider from sinking through the ice. After the rescue the man gave Per his daughter for a wife. One of the last of the old-time...
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