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The Master of Hestviken: The Son Avenger (Volume IV) Willa Cather Counted as the first ofBy Sigrid Undset Translated by Arthur G. Chater The Master of Hestviken tetralogy, set in thirteenth century Norway, is the story of Olav Audunsson, a man whose life is a chronicle of conflict: between the brutal facts of the fading pagan order and the ascendant light of Christianity, between violence and peace, fidelity and betrayal, transgression and redemption. The Son Avenger follows Olav into old age and the resolution of his life. For all its