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The narrative centers on a songsmith living in a forested Norumbega settlement, unfolding through sung tales and episodic memory of hunts, sea voyages, and a fraught romance. The protagonist’s violent past, forced departures, and a storm-driven escape lead to exile, a coastal refuge with its own tomb and tower, and the social consequences of honor and kinship. Lyric interpolations and saga-like passages frame reflections on fate, loss, and the duties of storytelling, examining how communal law and private feeling shape identity and the claim of song to preserve or condemn the past.

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Title: Randvar the songsmith

A romance of Norumbega

Author: Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

Release date: April 5, 2023 [eBook #70472]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Harper & brothers, 1906

Credits: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

[See p. 131

“SHE KNELT DOWN BEFORE HIM.... THE WOMAN IN HER PLEADED AS BEFORE A LAWMAN”

Randvar the Songsmith
A Romance of Norumbega

By
Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
Author of
“The Thrall of Leif the Lucky” etc.
New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1906
Copyright, 1906, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published February, 1906.
Yet onward still to ear and eye
The baffling marvel calls;
I fain would look before I die
On Norumbega’s walls.
John Greenleaf Whittier