# Jan Öster — Short Fiction character guide

> Jan Öster in Short Fiction by Selma Lagerlöf.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0045-a-story-from-halstan-s

## Who they are

A character from a rural or small-town narrative.

## In the story

### [The Wedding March](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_50_se/chapters/the-wedding-march)

The impoverished but talented fiddler of Svartsjö who arrives uninvited in a patched jacket and ultimately plays the melody he had been composing for three years.

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