This work is the new translation of William Heinesen’s masterpiece; one of the most important Scandinavians novels of the 20th-century; an epic struggle between good and evil; Dedalus is to translate all Heinesen’s novels into English. Although set on a small island the book is full of larger than life characters, like the formidable bank manager Ankersen, the scurrilous Matte Gok, the enormous blacksmith Janniksen and the amateur musicians. Heinesen succeeds in making the everyday world of Torshavn at the beginning of the 20th-century the stuff of a Greek tragedy.