GIANTS IN THE EARTH

The first volume of a trilogy by the Norwegian immigrant writerOle E.Rølvaag,Giants in the Earth: A Saga ofthe Prairie(1927) was a translation by Lincoln Colcord of two novels, written in Norwegian and published in Norway, entitledIde dage(1924; In Those Days) andRiket grundlægges(1925; The Kingdom Is Founded), which tell the story of a handful of emigrants from Rølvaag's home district of Helgeland in northern Norway who settle on the prairie of America's Dakota Territory.