Project Gutenberg 2025-07-28 Public domain in the USA. 232 Kallas, Aino 1878 1956 Krohn, Aino Kallas, Aino Krohn Suonio, Aino Barbara von Tisenhusen : $b Liivinmaalainen tarina $aHelsinki :$bOtava, $c1923, reprint 1995. Tuula Temonen "Barbara von Tisenhusen : Liivinmaalainen tarina" by Aino Kallas is a historical novella written in the early 20th century. Cast as a 16th-century Livonian chronicle, it follows the noblewoman Barbara von Tisenhusen and the lower-born clerk Franz Bonnius, whose forbidden love collides with rigid class laws and family honor. Told by a pastor-narrator, it probes passion, piety, and the cruelty of patriarchal pride in a sumptuous yet decaying society. The opening of the novella adopts the voice of Pastor Matthaeus Jeremias Friesner, who recounts Barbara’s upbringing as an orphan at Rõngu amid Livonia’s opulence and moral laxity. A humiliating moment in Tallinn—after she is paraded in a gold dress—sparks her rejection of vanity and sympathy for the local peasantry; she even condemns a brutal bear-baiting. When the new clerk Franz Bonnius arrives, an immediate attachment forms, and Barbara resolves to marry him despite the Pärnu pact forbidding such misalliances. Her family refuses consent, the lovers flee toward Riga, and Barbara is captured near Sigulda and tried by her kinsmen, where she defiantly acknowledges her bond and shields Franz. The excerpt closes with her brothers taking her onto the frozen Lake Võrtsjärv as an ice hole is cut, while the pastor, forced to attend, prepares her for death. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250406093908kallas 1923 FI Reading ease score: 34.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Historical fiction Estonia -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction PH Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Romance Category: Novels 105844 2025-07-30T08:48:28.127489 text/html 114516 2025-07-30T08:48:34.086452 application/epub+zip 114618 2025-07-30T08:48:31.295469 application/epub+zip 94531 2025-07-30T08:48:29.994488 application/epub+zip 255222 2025-07-30T08:48:36.073469 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 246480 2025-07-30T08:48:33.399473 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 89778 2025-07-30T08:48:27.852505 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 70042 2025-07-28T14:34:37 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13453 2025-07-30T08:48:36.248452 application/rdf+xml 16833 2025-07-30T08:48:30.505474 image/jpeg 4323 2025-07-30T08:48:30.247487 image/jpeg 115737 2025-07-30T08:48:28.138518 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