The Wind Is My Lover

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The Wind Is My Lover
Author Viktor Rydberg
Original titleSingoalla
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish
Published1865 (1865)

The Wind Is My Lover (Swedish : Singoalla) is a novel by Swedish author Viktor Rydberg. The novel was first published in the calendar Aurora in 1857, with the subtitle "Romantic fairytale poem" ("Romantisk sagodikt"). In 1865 the novel was first published as a book but with a reworked happy ending. [1]

The novel was adapted first as an opera in 1940 by Gunnar de Frumerie, then as a film as Singoalla in 1949.

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References

  1. Andreas Hedberg (2004). "Ett medeltidsfiaskos historia" (in Swedish). Café Crème. Retrieved 21 July 2017.