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Historical person
1270–1319
Haakon V of Norway was a king of Norway who strengthened royal administration in the early fourteenth century. He shifted political attention toward Oslo, built fortifications including Akershus and worked to protect Norwegian interests amid Scandinavian dynastic competition.
In Sigrid Undset’s In the Wilderness, he returns to Norway without resolving the hidden murder that excludes him from confession and communion, while his children Eirik and Cecilia begin to form adult lives under the weight of his silence.
Series
The Master of Hestviken follows Olav Audunsson from youth to old age in Norway during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Betrothed to Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter as a child, Olav spends years fighting her relatives for recognition of their bond. Violence, outlawry and service to the rebel noble…
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