If a fairy idyl has any home, it is certainly in the deep fjord valleys of Nordland in the summer.
"It was spring again" is the almost invariable prelude to action in the Nordland novels.
In the following year he revisited Nordland and travelled into Finmark.
In Nordland, on the contrary, the Lap element is predominant, and has in a measure altered the character of the people.
The vagabond from Nordland has his own adventures, his bonnes fortunes.
