The Bell in the Lake
The Bell in the Lake The first in a rich historical trilogy that draws on legend, by a literary craftsman and the author of The Sixteen Trees of the Somme.Norway, 1880. The lake has frozen, and for…
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The Bell in the Lake
The first in a rich historical trilogy that draws on legend, by a literary craftsman and the author of The Sixteen Trees of the Somme.Norway, 1880. The lake has frozen, and for months the ground is too hard to bury the dead. Winter is hard in Butangen, a village secluded at the end of a valley.
Then Pastor Kai Schweigaard takes over the small parish, with its 700-year-old stave church carved with pagan deities. Astrid Hekne dreams of a life beyond all this, beyond marriage, children, and working the land to the end of her days. The two bells in the tower were forged by Astrid's forefather