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2000s: The Lyderhorn, Bergen’s greatest mountain, watches over everything and everyone
Yours Until Death
What you need to know before your trail
The single mothers of Bergen are being targeted and terrorised by a group of teenagers who seem hell bent on causing trouble in and around where they live.
The gang have even fashioned some kind of macabre torture chamber in the nearby woods which they put to horrifying use.
One local boy, Roar, finds Varg Veum’s name in a phone book and he comes to search him out for help with getting his bike back from the local gang. He daren’t tell his mother for the last boy to complain got his mother to talk to them and she was abused for her trouble.
Roar’s mum Wenche Andresen and her estranged husband Jonas live an unusual life and Varg gets to know them and Roar. He’s not sure what to expect. What he was not expecting to find was a dead body.
Travel Guide
The streets of Staalesen’s Bergen are not the ones you would want to walk down in real life. Even the protagonist name – Varg is threatening and cold – Varg means “Wolf” – His full name translates as “Wolf-in-a-holy-place,” in old Norse – an outsider in other words.
Staalesen puts extreme importance on how a person’s surroundings and society can fail and mould a person. The city’s streets for example are as much of a character in the book as any of the people.
From the woods where the boys torture chamber is found to the mountain which overlooks every evil dead that takes place there, the sense of isolation, of fear, and of sheer desperation rings through every page.
Lyderhorn, Bergen’s greatest mountain:
“The mountain looks steep, dark and depressing from here. Tv Antennas bristled on its summit, They sliced into the cloud’s bellies and guts of steel blue sky leaked out’
Bergen’s most popular places to visit are listed in the Visit Bergen website. Of course here you will see a much more pleasant side to the city….
Streetview Maps
A) Bergen - Puddefjord Bridge
E) Bergen - Strandveien - Varg Veum lives here
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Yours Until Death
Bergen and the Lydeford Mountain are Yours until Death
Destination: Bergen Departure Time: 1970s
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