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Guest the One-Eyed

Chapter 1: GUEST THE ONE-EYED
By Gunnar Gunnarsson
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A multi-part family saga set in a bleak rural landscape, the narrative traces household life, inheritance tensions, and personal loyalties as a young fiddler comes of age, a powerful patriarch directs farm and community affairs, and an enigmatic one-eyed outsider enters and disrupts established rhythms. Episodes range from domestic scenes and seasonal labour to the arrival of a foreign woman and escalating disputes over honour and property. The work balances human passions and social obligation with vivid descriptions of weather and landscape, exploring how tradition, pride, and change shape several intertwined lives.

GUEST THE
ONE-EYED
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE SWORN BROTHERS

A tale of the early days of Iceland by the most noted of living Icelandic novelists. “To read it is like being struck in the face on a sultry day with a breeze fresh from the glaciated mountains of the Viking North.”

—The Bookman.

“Gunnarsson has made his characters so genuine, so red-blooded and so masculine that they stand out like living men.”

—News-Tribune, Detroit.
NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF

GUEST THE ONE-EYED

TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH OF
GUNNAR GUNNARSSON
BY W. W. WORSTER
NEW YORK
ALFRED · A · KNOPF
1922
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY GUNNAR GUNNARSSON
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
[Original title: Af Borgslægtens Historie]
Set up and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA