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 The Bridegroom is a tragic romance novel, set in Norway at the time of The Black Death. It was published in 1927, written by Norwegian author Ingeborg Refling Hagen.The novel tells the story of Elise, a teenage girl living on a secluded farm in the deep forests of eastern Norway. She has a distant crush on the local master fiddler Erik Ekset, whom she knows will show up for the annual midsummer revels. She prepares for this meeting, unaware that the plague is approaching. Ekset is supposed to be playing at a grand wedding later on, at the farm of Kvålstad.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })During the midsummer feast, the plague arrives, in form of a dead fiddler in a cart, drawn by a gaunt and pale horse, who scares off almost everyone present. Only one remains, a poor Cloud Cuckoolander who tries on the hat of the dead man, and thus catches the plague. He is assigned as a serf to the Kvålstad farm, and tragedy ensues when he brings the plague with him. A week later, the entire community is smitten, and among the first casualties are - the fiddler Erik Ekset and the bridegroom at the wedding. Many more follow suit.Elise has been promised a date with the fiddler, and waits for him all summer, unawares that he is dead. Only at autumn, news reach the farm, in form of a traveller who carries the news, and the plague with him. Elise´s brother, and her great-grandmother, succumbs, and Elise acknowledges that her farm is desolate, takes a horse to bring news. But as she approaches the closest farm, Arstad, an old woman tells her that everyone except her is dead, after attending the Kvålstad wedding. Thus, Elise rides on, distraught, nearly losing it.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })At the same time, the forest is packed with people carrying coffins to the lake, to get them ferried over to the local church. Among them is a young mother, carrying her husband, with the help of her father, who asks her to snap out of her sorrow. Elise agrees to help them, and then, the bride from the wedding earlier on shows up, completely disarrayed and out of her mind from grief, still carrying her bridal crown. The father, who is related to the bride, tries to console her as well, only to be rebuked - "there is no solace for me, the roads go in circles here". So, they all reach the beach, calling for the ferryman to take the coffins over the lake. The bride panics, the father consoles the daughter, and Elise jumps in the boat, rowing it herself, to find the fiddler´s grave. She is, by now, smitten herself, and succumbs to the plague while searching for the grave of her lost love. The novel ends as her soul departs.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); }) Tropes to be found in this work:
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