Fjøsnissen Of Granli - A Tale Of The Norwegian Hills
Ola Nordbotten was not an evil man. Just ignorant of tradition, perhaps, or stubborn in his ways. Regardless, when his father died, he did become the keeper of Granli, husmannsplassen clinging to the slope where the spruces stood tall and the earth was just un-barren enough to provide. He’d married four years earlier to the then sixteen-year-old Mathilda of Bakli, as was custom in eighteenth-century Norway. And now, with...