In the Wilderness (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Sigrid Undset
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: Early fourteenth century
- Setting: Norway
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Fathers, Robbery or robbers, Adultery, Widows or widowers, Middle Ages, Norway or Norwegians
- Locales: Norway
Characters Discussed
Olav Audunssøn, the master of Hestviken. When his wife dies, he goes to England. There he is tempted by the pleasures of the flesh and of violence—part of his redemption, he believes, for his unconfessed crime of murder. He returns to Hestviken, where there is conflict between him and his supposed son Eirik. Wounded while fighting the invading Swedes, Olav recovers but feels that he has become an old man.
Eirik, the son of Olav’s late wife Ingunn and falsely claimed by Olav. After much conflict, he leaves Hestviken and is reported to be among...
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