Ragna

A tall, impulsive girl raised on a windswept fjord coast grows up with a fierce love of the sea and Old Norse sagas, performing daring exploits and secretly composing poetry. Domestic life contrasts with visions of a phantom sailor and heroic myths that shape her imagination and appetite for risk. Discovery of her writings leads to family scrutiny and, at her father's insistence, arrangements for formal education abroad; she is sent to a convent school in Paris to improve her prospects. The narrative traces her coming-of-age tensions between local duties, adventurous longing, and the shaping influence of family tradition.