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100 1 _aVäring, Astrid,
_d1892-1978
245 1 0 _aVintermyren
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-10
508 _aJens Sadowski, Alpo Tiilikka, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Vintermyren : berättelse" by Astrid Väring is a novel written in the early 20th century. It likely traces a young farmhand, Mats Jonsson, as he struggles between the pull of his home soil and the hard streets of a northern Swedish town, seeking learning, dignity, and justice. His inner battles—over love for the now‑married Anna‑Greta and against the power of the wealthy patron Grubb—unfold alongside vivid evocations of land, folklore, and social hierarchy. The opening of the novel follows Mats trudging through thawing streets, thinking of spring and the “winter bog,” whose mythic vittra mirrors his temptation and longing. He boards with the taciturn fisherman Öberg, studies among children at the poor school, and is mocked as a “bonnhyvel,” while privately he wrestles with books, numbers, and old devotional texts in search of firm truth. Memories of Anna‑Greta and fevered night‑visions nearly drive him back, but he resists through prayer and resolve. Offered a coveted free place at the elite town school—funded by Grubb, the merchant he holds responsible for his family’s ruin—he refuses rather than live indebted to an enemy. He resolves to find honest work and a straighter path to redress, as the scene closes with talk in town of draining the perilous myrland—a public concern that echoes Mats’s personal fight with the forces that swamp his life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cStockholm: Nordstedt & Söner, 1928
653 _aSwedish fiction -- 20th century
653 _aVästerbottens län (Sweden) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76471
999 _c117196
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