Singoalla

A young Swedish knight encounters Singoalla, a girl of the wandering folk, deep in the medieval forest. What follows is a haunting tale of love, enchantment, and loss — set against the backdrop of fourteenth-century Sweden, with its castles, cloisters, and the shadow of the Black Death. Viktor Rydberg's novella, first published in 1865, is one of the great works of Swedish Romanticism: lyrical, melancholy, and suffused with a sense of the sacred and the uncanny. This translation aims to render its quiet beauty and medieval atmosphere faithfully in English.