Question
The poet Hulda responded to this novel with a more idealistic view of rural life in her novel People of the Valleys. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel partly narrated by Nonni, who yearns to "sing for the whole world." This novel's protagonist buys the farm Summerhouses on land previously owned by the exploitative Jón (yohn) the Bailiff.
ANSWER: Independent People [or Sjálfstætt fólk]
[10m] Independent People is a novel by Halldór Laxness, the only Nobel Laureate so far from this country.
ANSWER: Iceland [or Ísland]
[10e] Laxness was taken to court for using modern Icelandic spelling in his 1942 edition of a text in this genre. This genre, which includes the legendary tale of the Völsung family, often draws on stories found in the Poetic Edda.
ANSWER: sagas [or Völsunga saga, or Saga of the Völsungs, or Hrafnkels saga, or Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða]
<Alexandra Hardwick , Literature - European long fiction>
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