Project Gutenberg 2025-07-09 Public domain in the USA. 164 Hamsun, Knut 1859 1952 Gamsun, Knut Hamsund, Knut Pedersen Pedersen, Knut Thode, Knut Jalkanen, Huugo 1888 1969 Markens grøde. Finnish Maan siunaus : $b Romaani $aHelsinki :$bKust.Oy Kirja, $c1919. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_the_Soil Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen "Maan siunaus : Romaani" by Knut Hamsun is a novel written in the early 20th century. It portrays the founding of a homestead in the northern wilderness, following the tireless settler Iisakki and the capable Inkeri as they wrest a living from forest and bog, gather livestock, and turn rough ground into fields. Themes include the dignity of manual labor, the rhythms of nature, and the slow making of home and family far from town. The opening of the novel follows a solitary man, Iisakki, trekking north through marsh and forest until he chooses a site, throws up a turf hut, and begins clearing land, first with goats and ingenious contrivances to manage them alone. Seeking “women’s help,” he eventually finds Inkeri, a strong, shy woman with a harelip, who stays, milks, brings sheep, and later returns with a cow, Mansikki. Iisakki hauls logs, raises a proper house, replaces a stone hearth with a stove, and steadily adds to their stock; worries that the cow might be stolen are eased when a visiting kinswoman, Ulla, confirms its origin. A son, Elias, is born; the pair marry and have the child baptized. Iisakki acquires a horse, cart, plow, and harrow on credit, expands fields, and sows barley while relying on hardy potatoes; a long drought burns the grain, but late rains salvage a decent potato crop. Everyday life is built from toil and small triumphs—new sheds, a harness room, cheese-making, and clever fixes after mishaps like a young bull breeding too early. By winter he sells firewood to clear debts and brings home comforts such as a lamp and a wall clock, marking the homestead’s steady rise from rough hut to a living farm. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250607221711hamsun 1919 FI Reading ease score: 50.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. fi Norway -- Fiction PT Text Category: Novels Category: Classics of Literature 811717 2025-07-30T08:19:38.069355 text/html 369890 2025-07-30T08:19:47.807307 application/epub+zip 382495 2025-07-30T08:19:41.217390 application/epub+zip 373650 2025-07-30T08:19:39.953364 application/epub+zip 640586 2025-07-30T08:19:53.290314 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 599764 2025-07-30T08:19:46.948330 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 768186 2025-07-30T08:19:37.487361 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 748443 2025-07-09T16:13:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14162 2025-07-30T08:19:53.429310 application/rdf+xml 12753 2025-07-30T08:19:40.457350 image/jpeg 3246 2025-07-30T08:19:40.203348 image/jpeg 368470 2025-07-30T08:19:38.141359 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 en.wikipedia fi.wikipedia fi.wikipedia no.wikipedia