About this story
You marry him against your father, take Husaby's keys and raise five sons through his rising and the ruin that follows. A stray spear at the thing-stead takes him; the plague finds you a lay sister in Oslo's fever sheds. Ninety chapters carry a convent girl's disobedience to a dawn at the rail, blue thread round your hands.
Who you’ll meet
Erlend Nikulausson, a Norwegian nobleman who comes to the rescue, and Ingebjorg, a convent friend.
How it opens
Autumn bells crossed Oslo above timber roofs and muddy market lanes.
Fru GroaYour father entrusted you to the convent, not to every fair in the city.
The lay mistress inspected your cloak and the silver cross at your throat.
IngebjorgWe shall remain on the church road and return before evening prayers.
We will attend the booths, buy thread, and come directly home.
Fru GroaDirect roads become remarkably curved beneath festival banners.