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Updated: June 16, 2025
And now there were rumours and talk of things about the place, ay, drifting like a fog, settling on faces and getting into ears; even the children going to school at Breidablik began nodding secrets among themselves. And at last the Lensmand had to take it up; had to bestir himself and report it, and ask for instructions.
Here at Sellanraa there was nothing of that sort; Jensine, the servant-maid, was a mere nothing, a worker and no more, rather suited to Sivert. "I've a fancy to see how that girl Barbro from Breidablik turned out now she's grown up," said Eleseus one day. "Well, go down to Axel Ström's place and see," said Sivert. Eleseus went down one Sunday.
His brother's wife, at Breidablik had written home to Helgeland trying to find a decent woman to help him, but nothing had come of it as yet. And in any case, it would mean his having to pay for the journey. Nay, 'twas a mean and wicked trick of Barbro to make away with the bit of a child and then run off herself.
As for a mowing-machine and a harrow, he could buy them in any of the towns, and send up from there. He stayed talking a long while with Axel Ström about the other settlers near; of Storborg, the trading station; of Axel's brother, newly married, who had come to Breidablik, and had started draining the moors and getting the water out.
Now what had he done that for? A sudden impulse to do just that thing; perhaps he had done it to hide his embarrassment. They started off again, and all three of them walked a bit of the way. They came to a new farm. "What's that there?" asked Inger. "'Tis Brede's place, that he's bought." "Brede?" "Breidablik, he calls it. There's wide moorland, but the timber's poor."
The earth trembles under the wheels of his cart, and men call the noise thunder. Thor's wife is Sif, whose hair is of gold. Balder is a son of Odin and Frigg. He is so fair that his countenance emits beams of brightness. He is wise and gentle, and is therefore loved by all. His dwelling is Breidablik, where nothing impure exists. Nanna is his wife. Njord comes from the race of the wise Vanir.
Coming down the road that day Isak noticed other clearings; two of them were lower down, nearer the village, but there was one far up above, between Breidablik and Sellanraa ay, men were beginning to work on the land now; in the old days when Isak first came up, it had lain waste all of it.
The Breidablik woman felt a sting at the sight; the cloak she could have done without thank heaven, she set no store by such foolishness! but ... she had children of her own Barbro, a great girl already, Helge, the next, and Kathrine, all of an age for school.
Oh, but to tell the truth it was not so much Brede was selling the place; 'twas the Bank and the storekeeper were selling up Breidablik, though for the sake of appearances they let it be done in Brede's name. That way, he thought he was saved from disgrace.
A paper of coffee, was it? Why not a pound? A pound of coffee, while you're about it." "No need to talk that way, Isak. My brother Nils, he gets coffee; down at Breidablik, too, they've coffee." "Ay, for they've no milk. Not a drop of milk on the place, they've not." "That's as it may be.
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