munken

Updated: May 13, 2025

Five years after Victoria, Hamsun gives us the romantic drama of Munken Vendt, in which Diderik and Iselin appear.

Knut Hamsun - Growth of the Soil

But by some rare guidance it is led, after the storm of Munken Vendt, into channels of beneficent fertility. In 1904, after an interval of short stories, letters of travel, and poems, came the story entitled Svoermere. The word means "Moths." It also stands for something else; something for which we English, as a sensible people, have no word.

Knut Hamsun - Growth of the Soil