In the Wilderness (The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 3)

Originally published in Norwegian in 1927, this translation by Arthur G. Chater first published in 1929, public domain. It is Norway in the thirteenth century, a land rent by unremitting warfare and feebly lit by Christianity. Olav Audunsson was once an outlaw; now he is a man of wealth and stature. But he is haunted by the memory of crimes for which there is no easy atonement... In the third volume of her medieval epic, Sigrid Undset plunges readers into a world that is at once profoundly ...