Summary
In the stark, unforgiving landscape of Iceland, Ejvind, a man driven to the precipice of desperation by the gnawing hunger afflicting his family, seeks succor from the local priest, a figure of spiritual and material abundance. Confronted with a stony refusal, Ejvind's moral compass, already frayed by exigency, snaps. He commits the cardinal sin of agrarian society: the theft of a sheep from the very man who denied him charity. Apprehended in the immediate aftermath, Ejvind's brief incarceration is but a prelude to a more profound rupture with society. Executing a daring escape, he sheds his former identity, embracing the perilous, untamed existence of an outlaw, forever branded by the law and cast into the desolate fringes of civilization.
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Ejvind and his family are in need of food. So Ejvind seeks help from the rich priest next door. He refuses to help. Ejvind then steals a sheep from the priest, he is caught. But he escapes from prison, and becomes an outlaw.
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