Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater

GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA

Gösta Berlings Saga: translation

A novel by the SwedishSelma Lagerlöf,Gosta Berlings saga(1891; tr.The Story of Gosta Berling, 1898) is set in the author's home district of Varmland at the end of the 1820s and tells a semi-mythical story of good and evil.