The Master of Hestviken: The Axe (Volume I) Sheen and Saint Benedict: The Man

and Saint Benedict: The Man and His Work (2006)

and that justice and mercy alike repay princes and princesses

provides a profound guide for meditation on the way of the cross and the mystery of our redemption

It is this return that William Aylott Orton provides in The Economic Role of the State

The Master of Hestviken: The Axe (Volume I) Sheen and Saint Benedict: The ManBy Sigrid Undset Translated by Arthur G. Chater The Master of Hestviken tetralogy, set in thirteenth century Norway, is the story of Olav Audunsson, a man whose life is a chronicle of conflict: between the brutal facts of the fading pagan order and the ascendant light of Christianity, between violence and peace, fidelity and betrayal, transgression and redemption. The Axe follows Olav from his childhood days with the family of Steinfinn Toresson.