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1 online resource (239 pages)

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Description based upon print version of record.

Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- First Story: The Innermost Landscape -- The Girls Who Shared a Skin -- The Stave Church -- The Sound of Silver -- A Leaky Boat on Stormy Seas -- The Secret of the Mountain Elves -- Church Bells Shall Still Ring -- God's Finger Pointed at Norway -- Her Own Winter Bird -- Crumbling Centuries -- The Barbed Word -- The Serpent That Vanished -- It Was a Wolf Before -- Just Two Squirrels -- Norwegian Incense -- The Midtstrand Bride -- Glad Tidings -- The Wedding Gift -- Just an Old Wives' Tale -- From a Long-ago Funeral Mass -- Gifts from Latakia

The Stain on the Stabbur Wall -- A Fisherman without Bait -- Windswept February Red -- The Gas Lamps in Dresden -- No Bell Tower in Your Name -- The Artillery Officer's Son -- I Swear on Meyer's Phrase Book -- Forty Fox Skins for a Faithful Wife -- A Green Shoot at Last -- The Door Serpent -- Towards Enemies Greater than Him -- The Word with a Capital K -- Through the Tip of His Pencil -- Passion's Braid -- Love Might Take the Same Path -- Second Story: The Fall -- The Deconsecration -- My Name beneath Sailcloth -- Struck down -- A Last Resort -- The Hekne Sisters' Coffin -- The New Assignment

Needs Must -- "So Much Happening" -- The Crossbar -- After Four Wet Months -- The Astrid Church -- Those Who Are Leaving Butangen -- Months without Blood -- Thirty Fur-Clad Men -- There in the Grey Frost-Smoke -- A Mild Death, in the Circumstances -- Envelopes between Psalms -- To Dresden with You -- Chain Brothers -- An Architect among Architects -- Kaiserschnitt -- A Ewe Will Nay Have a Better Birth -- The Stroll -- Echoes of Ancient Bronze -- The House of Bowed Heads -- Third Story: These Some must be Somebody -- Ye Shall Shuttle Wide -- Ants and Flies -- Sunrise -- Author's Note

Summary

"As long as people could remember, the stave church's bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard moves to the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the community to cull favor for his plan for the old stave church, with its pagan deity effigies and supernatural bells. When the pastor makes a deal that brings an outsider, a sophisticated German architect, into their world, the village and Astrid are caught between past and future, as dark forces come into play"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject

Young women -- Norway -- Fiction.

Clergy -- Norway -- Fiction.

Church buildings -- Reconstruction -- Fiction.

Architects -- Fiction.

Folklore -- Norway -- Fiction.

Norway -- History -- 1814-1905 -- Fiction.

Architects.

Church buildings -- Reconstruction.

Clergy.

Folklore.

Young women.

Norway.

Chronological Term

1814-1905

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Fiction.

History.

Historical fiction.

Added Author

Dawkin, Deborah.

Other Form:

Print version: Mytting, Lars The Bell in the Lake : A Novel New York, NY : Abrams, Inc.,c2020 9781419743184