Astrid. Novels and Stories

The story "Astrid" (1899) takes us to the 11th century, when Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes alternately waged war against each other and made peace. And when queens could voice their opinion on the "land of great Kungahälla." The Swedish writer, renowned storyteller, and Nobel Prize laureate Selma Lagerlöf transforms the plots of ancient Icelandic sagas into psychological miniatures about love and compassion, about the struggle between paganism and Christianity in human history and in the soul of man... The collection also includes legends about Christ and stories about trolls and people...