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Title	:	The Löwensköld Ring (Löwensköldska ringen #1)
Author	:	Selma Lagerlöf
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 117 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1991 by Norvik Press (first published 1925)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. European Literature. Swedish Literature. Cultural. Sweden. Scandinavian Literature. Fantasy. Nobel Prize

The Löwensköld Ring (Löwensköldska ringen #1)

Selma Lagerlöf

Paperback | Pages: 117 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 633 Users | 52 Reviews

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Edgar Allen Poe meets Lord of The Rings in the dark Swedish forest!

My middle son read this short novel for class this month, so I decided to reread it after many years to be able to discuss it with him. There were many strands to follow up on to make sense of this ghost story featuring a powerful general and his cherished ring - a symbol of the military power that Karl XII, Sweden's "hjältekonung", or hero king, exerted over people long after he died.

Arbitrary Power!

Karl XII is an ambiguous figure in Swedish history, a military leader who still attracts the radical right and makes them dream of Sweden as a "stormakt", or great power. When Selma Lagerlöf wrote her novel, he was already long dead, but the power of his personality survived in the stories people told of his "heroic" life. Farmers sitting in small, crowded huts, trying to stay warm around the fire in the kitchen, - they felt alive and revitalised when they shared tales of supernatural royal glory.

Löwenskjöld's ring is such a story: a Poe-esque tale of vengeance beyond the grave, and of a military hero who haunts the world until his precious ring is returned to him. He invades the Swedish historical phase of freedom and peace to claim back a ring given to him by Karl XII himself, and which was buried with him - only to be stolen from the grave.

Whoever feels the pull of the ring and takes it automatically brings the curse of Löwenskjöld's ghost upon him- or herself. Ultimately, the only way to get rid of the terrible ghost is to return the ring to Löwenskjöld's grave.

So far, so good! The story with its brilliant Swedish prose, evoking the dark forests and the ghosts, the trolls and other spirits that inhabit Värmland in the imagination of its people, works very well to keep adolescent readers engaged.



But there is more to it than the exciting folklorist tale of a long lost Swedish past.

There is the question of superstition and justice - and this is where my middle son gets angry and frustrated.

The ring accidentally comes into the possession of a family unrelated with the Löwenskjölds, and three men are put on trial for theft and murder, despite complete lack of evidence. As the trial can't be based on facts, the court decides to let God pick the guilty man among the three, through the means of casting dice. This already makes my son furious, but it gets worse. People instantly mix up their various beliefs, and they trust in God's will to pick the right man while at the same time believing that the old ghost of Löwenskjöld will guide the dice, so that he will get his revenge.

Then the unimaginable thing happens that all three men get the same result when casting the dice - all sixes. They think they are freed - by the will of god or ghost, and most certainly by the court - but there is another random instance of (in)justice in their harsh world - the will of the current king. He decides they are all guilty, and orders them to be executed by hanging.

My son can't accept the randomness of the popular superstition, of people's faith in "supernatural justice" or the random power of decision a king holds in a monarchy - even to act against the court's findings. Bizarre, and so unfair, he says. And I think, silently, sadly:

"No, Selma Lagerlöf got it right! That is how the world functions - still today!"

But she lets the story end with an act of love, so there is still hope for humanity in her world of deep forests and angry ghosts...

Let's hope she got that right as well!

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Original Title:	Löwensköldska ringen
ISBN:	1870041143 (ISBN13: 9781870041140)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Löwensköldska ringen #1

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Il Cimitero sotto la neve di Caspar David Friedrich fa da copertina a questa novella del 1925, introducendone il tema. È infatti in un cimitero del Värmland svedese che la vicenda ha inizio, quando, in una notte dagosto del 1741, dalla tomba del generale Bengt Löwensköld viene rubato lanello donatogli dal re Carlo XII in persona. Il generale è una figura leggendaria, quanto e forse più del re stesso, tra la gente del posto, che lha soprannominato Forte Bengt. Si raccontano molte storie su

A story about vindictive ghosts, superstitions, and a curse following a ring stolen from a grave, that feels taken from folklore passed down orally.I liked how the story is told as if we're really listening to someone narrating the story in front of a fire, complete with digressions about the figure of king Karl XII or the people of Värmland.A negative note is the rather abrupt ending. It seems that this is just the first book in a series, so I don't know if it continues in the sequels, but the

Löwensköldska ringen (1925) Translated V.S. Howard, 1931I know that in former days there were plenty of people who knew not the meaning of the word 'fear'.Löwensköldska ringen (1925). Translated as The General's Ring (Francesca Martin, 1928) and The Lövensköld Ring (Linda Schenck, 1991)

I read this more than 20 years ago, and had vaguely remembered it as a rather standard ghost story; poor farmer in the deep woods of 18th century Värmland is possessed by greed in a weak moment, steals a priceless ring off the corpse of an old nobleman, and death and misfortune follow those to whom the ring passes until it's returned. Gollum, gollum.Re-reading it now, I feel a bit bad about dismissing it. Not that that's not the plot; like many of Lagerlöf's more accomplished novels, it presents

OK, I am now a confirmed Selma Lagerlof fan, and of the three I've read, this is my favourite. I love a good vengeance story, and this one is unremitting, spanning thirty years, and tracing the consequences of the theft of General Lowenskold's ring from his cold, dead body as it lies in the crypt. Full of narrative twists, and with a pervasive sense of ambiguity, one can see Lagerlof coming into her full power as an author in this novel. Another reviewer describes it as Edgar Allen Poe meets the

Um livro único, uma fábula sobre a ganancia e a vingança. Semelhante ao " senhor dos anéis" é um pequeno livro que narra a historia de um anel amaldiçoado. Também aborda a saga de uma família que sofre as consequências por não devolver o anel. Prémio Nobel da literatura, Selma Lagerlof oferece-nos uma jóia sueca!

Ho già detto che a leggere questo libro la mia prima impressione era stata quella di vivere la storia stessa come se mi fosse stata raccontata oralmente da qualcuno, magari da un genitore che non l'ha mai fatto. Ha risvegliato in me questo sogno da fanciullo che tanto ha odiato la lettura nel corso della sua infanzia e della sua adolescenza, ma che ora è certo che a cominciare in quel modo, non avrebbe smesso più. Ed invece cominciai a leggere molto più tardi, e comunque non smisi più, non sto