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Historical person
died 1285
Thorfinn of Hamar was a medieval Norwegian churchman associated with the bishopric of Hamar. He belongs to the ecclesiastical world in which bishops acted as landholders, royal advisers and defenders of church privilege.
In Sigrid Undset’s The Axe, Bishop Thorfinn of Hamar becomes one of the few authorities willing to treat the young couple with justice and compassion.
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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