Project Gutenberg 2025-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 87 Ivalo, Santeri 1866 1937 Ingman, Santeri Ivalo, Herman Aleksander Lahjoitusmailla : $b Historiallinen näytelmä $aPorvoo :$bWerner Söderström, $c1900. Tapio Riikonen "Lahjoitusmailla : Historiallinen näytelmä" by Santeri Ivalo is a historical play written in the early 20th century. Set in 1830s Valkjärvi, it portrays peasants caught between conscience, law, and power as the Veikkola manor enforces “donation land” contracts and a disputed church build stalls. The drama centers on the hard-edged steward Hukka, an aging pastor who refuses to bend, the advocate Koironen, the forthright Harsia and Holttinen, the wavering Kyllästinen family (with Kaija and their daughter Siljo), and the upward-striving Laihanen. The opening of the play unfolds on the church hill: the old pastor mourns the halted construction and declines to sign a lease for his tiny plot despite Hukka’s pressure. Villagers arrive with shingles to roof the half-built church, while Kyllästinen’s household wavers over Siljo’s marriage—breaking with Laihanen, who has signed the manor’s contract, and circling toward Holttinen’s Antti. Koironen, a crafty local advocate, claims to hold documents proving long-held peasant ownership, urges tact—yield in small things, refuse the lease—and collects funds to appeal. Manor officials interrupt, order the men to the estate, and threaten force; the community resolves to appear but not sign, tempers flare in the tavern, and reports come back that the men endured beatings rather than put their marks to the contracts, as private jealousies (Laihanen, Siljo, Antti) and Marketta’s ominous chant darken the mood. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240104092508ingman 1900 FI Reading ease score: 54.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. fi Historical drama Finnish drama -- 19th century PH Text Category: Plays/Films/Dramas 287633 2025-09-30T07:38:54.270462 text/html 180192 2025-09-30T07:39:01.704387 application/epub+zip 182712 2025-09-30T07:38:57.613505 application/epub+zip 170657 2025-09-30T07:38:55.975497 application/epub+zip 351503 2025-09-30T07:39:04.591424 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 333500 2025-09-30T07:39:00.988440 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 247693 2025-09-30T07:38:53.920452 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 227967 2025-06-27T16:52:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15067 2025-09-30T07:39:04.718392 application/rdf+xml 15089 2025-09-30T07:38:56.963415 image/jpeg 3926 2025-09-30T07:38:56.717462 image/jpeg 179735 2025-09-30T07:38:54.292491 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fi.wikipedia