A Reply to Helga's Letter

3 hrs. 1 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Bergsveinn Birgisson

Narrator Vadim Prokhorov

Description

Bjarni Gistlason, the head of a community and owner of one of the best Icelandic farms, kept for a long time a letter from his beloved Helga, with whom he shared a forbidden and passionate love. He didn’t answer her call and couldn’t follow her to the city and a new life. Years later, he finally decides to explain why and writes a reply to Helga’s letter. Bjarni’s confession is filled with love for his homeland, for the animals on the farm, full of life and blooming for Helga—and also with longing for her physical presence and for the life he was forced to give up. Closely tied to Iceland’s historical legends and heroic sagas, the novel by Bergsvein Birgisson praises traditions, love of the land, ancestors, and a woman.