Short Fiction · Character

Ingrid

An old Mamsell whose quiet charity and cry for freedom transformed the fate of countless despised women, remembered by the dead as a queen.

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Also known as VI Ingrid, Miss Ingrid

First appearance: Short Fiction

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Appears in multiple stories, often as a central figure in romantic or familial conflicts.

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Ingrid moves through these stories as a figure of moral gravity — the kind of woman whose small daily kindnesses ripple outward until they reshape whole communities. Her defining tension is between humility and the enormous, almost legendary influence she has wielded: she forbids the ghosts to praise her, yet her name has sounded through the new and old world. She matters because she embodies the collection's recurring question of how ordinary lives become extraordinary through love rather than power.

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Relationship types

Romantic
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Character groups

Historical and Legendary Figures
Domestic and Redemptive Figures
Religious and Domestic Figures
Rural and Allegorical Characters

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Breaking point
Aftermath
Closing

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Gunnar Hede
romantic · ambivalent
Gunnar Hede is deeply in love with Ingrid, but their relationship is strained by his… How this plays out →
Gunnar Hede
romantic · ambivalent
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Gunnar Hede
romantic · ambivalent
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Ingrid appears across 11 companion beats. Open any chapter in the free preview to see the notes beside the text.

Short Fiction
Appears in multiple stories, often as a central figure in romantic or familial conflicts.
His Mother's Portrait
The plain daughter of the poorest fisherman, who becomes Mattsson's wife; she secretly loves a young fisherman.
I
The serious young girl who leads the blind old man; she scrutinizes Hede and asks him to play a waltz from Freischütz.
II
Hede's fiancée who refuses to wait for him after his financial loss and disapproves of his peasant appearance.
III
The young girl who is buried alive but remains conscious; she is visited by an angel and revived by love.
IV
Buried alive, Ingrid awakens in her coffin, terrified and grateful to the Dalar man for saving her. She persuades him to hide her in his pack.
V
Flees to Anna Stina's house after feeling unloved and unworthy of life; experiences feverish dreams of her student.
VI
Weak and weary from her journey, she is determined to reach Munkhyttan to help Hede, despite her own fragile state.
The Peace of God
The girl making birch whisks, who is afraid of Ingmar Ingmarson but is reassured by his gentle response.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
The girl from the marsh croft, central to the chapter's narrative of struggle and resilience.
I
The plaintiff, a poor farmer's daughter, who sues for child support and ultimately withdraws her suit to prevent the defendant's perjury.

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