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3 unusual facts about The People of Juvik


Olav Duun

The most notable works are his six volume, The People of Juvik, which deals with four generations of a family of peasant landowners.

The People of Juvik

Originally released in Norway as I eventyre (literally, "in a fairytale") in 1921, and in America in 1933, the fourth book begins the story of Odin Setran which occupies the remaining three books.

The books chronicle the lives of the Juvikings, an old Norwegian landowning peasant family living in the Namdal valley.



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