twenty-krone

Updated: July 25, 2026

Andresen had also somehow or other managed to get hold of a gold piece, a twenty-Krone piece, and Sivert would gladly have had the bright thing himself; but Andresen would not part with it kept it wrapped up in tissue paper in his chest. Sivert proposed a wrestling match for the money see who could throw the other; but Andresen would not risk it.

Knut Hamsun - Growth of the Soil

At last they agreed to set twenty-five Kroner in notes against the gold twenty-Krone piece, and Sivert slipped home to Sellanraa that night to ask his father for the money. A young man's trick, the pretty play of youth!

Knut Hamsun - Growth of the Soil