It is a year of famine up in Norrland.[1] ‘A year of famine’ means that one is almost without food in those places where the flock of children is large and the bit of ground small, from which one has to live. In good years there are gladness and laughter and noise wherever one turns. One has sweet white turnips to eat, and peas in full pods grow in the fields. Enough of bread, butter, cheese, and of other nice good things is found even in tiny cottages and poor men’s homes.…
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