Singoalla: A Tale from the Middle Ages

A young Swedish knight encounters Singoalla, a girl of the wandering

 Romani people, 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.