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Vengeance is mine, Saith manuscript, undated
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Hevnen hører mig til, siger manuscript, undated
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Smørkrigen i Greenfield manuscript, undated
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Peder Victorious (The Eyes That Did Not See) manuscript, 1929
The Eyes That Did Not See is chapter three. Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rølvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rølvaag's "vikings of the prairie"—Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tönseten and Kjersti, and Sörine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans.The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what Rølvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong.Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rølvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory. -
Peder Victorious (The Mill of the Gods) manuscript, 1929
The Mill of the Gods is chapter two. Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rølvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rølvaag's "vikings of the prairie"—Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tönseten and Kjersti, and Sörine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans.The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what Rølvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong.Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rølvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory. -
Peder Victorious (The Song of Life’s Dismay) manuscript, 1929
The Song of Life’s Dismay is chapter one. Peder Victorious, the sequel to Rølvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rølvaag's "vikings of the prairie"—Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert Tönseten and Kjersti, and Sörine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans.The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what Rølvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong.Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, Rølvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory. -
Peder Seier (Sangen Om Salumit) manuscript, 1928
Translated as Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later (1929). Peder Victorious continues the story of the Holm family of Giants in the Earth, concentrating on the youngest son, Peder, the only child born in America, and his relationship with his mother Beret, with the Norwegian-American church, with the surrounding community, and with the American school system. In the course of this novel Peder comes of age and ends up married to Irish-American Susie. In spite of its title the main character in the novel is Beret, showing how she becomes the best farmer in the community in spite of her struggle to adapt to the new culture and language.
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Peder Seier (De Øine Som Ikke Saa) manuscript, 1928
Translated as Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later (1929). Peder Victorious continues the story of the Holm family of Giants in the Earth, concentrating on the youngest son, Peder, the only child born in America, and his relationship with his mother Beret, with the Norwegian-American church, with the surrounding community, and with the American school system. In the course of this novel Peder comes of age and ends up married to Irish-American Susie. In spite of its title the main character in the novel is Beret, showing how she becomes the best farmer in the community in spite of her struggle to adapt to the new culture and language.
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Their Fathers' God (Trygve M. Ager final translation) manuscript, 1931
Susie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is tested by drought, depression, and family bickering. Susie believes they are being tested by their fathers' God. Peder blames Susie for the timidity of her beliefs; Susie fears Peder's pride and skepticism.
When political antagonism grows between the Norwegian and Irish immigrant communities, it threatens to split their marriage. Against a backdrop of hard times, crisscrossed by Populists, antimonopolists, and schemers, Rølvaag brings the struggle of immigrants into the twentieth century. In Giants in the Earth the Holm family strained to wrest a homestead from the land. In Peder Victorious the American-born children searched for a new national identity, often defying the traditions their parents fought to uphold. In Their Fathers' God, Rølvaag's most soul-searching novel, the first-generation Americans enter a world of ruthless competition in the midst of scarcity. -
Letter from Ole Rølvaag to unidentified, 1928 April
Ole Rolvaag's letter to unidentified.