Nordland

In the autumn of the second year, he went down with pneumonia, and a week after the 'Nordland sun' was a widow.

When he was four years old his family removed to the Lofoten Islands, Nordland, in an effort to better their fortunes.

If a fairy idyl has any home, it is certainly in the deep fjord valleys of Nordland in the summer.

He was put to work herding cattle, and spent long dreamy hours alone revelling in the loveliness of the light Nordland summer.

"It was spring again" is the almost invariable prelude to action in the Nordland novels.