Viktor Rydberg 2 hr 38 min read

On an island in a Småland lake stands the ancient castle of the Månesköld family, and to it comes the gypsy girl Singoalla, whose love for the knight Erland will summon strange forces.

Viktor Rydberg's 1857 novel (this Finnish edition, 'Singoalla') is a haunting, romantic fantasy of medieval Sweden. Lyrical, eerie, deeply atmospheric. Read it for a beloved Scandinavian classic, a tale of forbidden love, gypsy sorcery, and the plague, from a giant of Swedish letters, here in Finnish.

In its time

Published in 1857, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

2 hr 38 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).