The Master of Hestviken: The Axe (Volume I) Sheen provides a profound guide for

provides a profound guide for meditation on the way of the cross and the mystery of our redemption

In the face of these apprehensions

The result is a reunification of what had been fragmented and the realization “that all divisions have only a methodological value and that what really exists is the world and man in the world

whose intellectual disciples include Josef Pieper

and narrative styles

The Master of Hestviken: The Axe (Volume I) Sheen provides a profound guide forBy Sigrid Undset Translated by Arthur G. Chater The Master of Hestviken tetralogy, set in thirteenth century Norway, is the story of Olav Audunsson, a man whose life is a chronicle of conflict: between the brutal facts of the fading pagan order and the ascendant light of Christianity, between violence and peace, fidelity and betrayal, transgression and redemption. The Axe follows Olav from his childhood days with the family of Steinfinn Toresson.