Pirkkalan pyhät pihlajat

Pirkkalan pyhät pihlajat
Author Kaari Utrio
Country Finland
Language Finnish
Subject Middle Age, love
Genre Historical fiction
Publisher Tammi
Publication date
1976
Media type Print (Hardback, pocket book)
Pages 306 pp
ISBN 951-30-3877-7
OCLC 3433451
LC Class PH355.U76 P54
Followed by Karjalan kruunu

Pirkkalan pyhät pihlajat (Finnish: The Holy Rowan Trees of Pirkkala) is a historical novel by Finnish author Kaari Utrio.

The novel is divided into six parts. The first part sets the historical background from A.D. 800 to 1250 for the location of the holy rowan trees of Pirkkala. The rest five parts have each their own first person narrator (Filippa, Aleidis Ragvaldintytär, Kaarle Kustaanpoika, Barbara Catillina and Tuomas Haukka, respectively). The parts are divided into chapters and concentrate on years A.D. 1280-82 with flashbacks to earlier times.


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