# Margareta Celsing — The Story of Gösta Berling character guide

> Margareta Celsing in The Story of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0040-part-ii-xxiii-margareta-celsing

## Who they are

A strong and independent woman who owns an ironworks.

## In the story

### [II: The Beggar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/chapters/ii-the-beggar)

The major's wife at Ekeby, who reveals her past as the beautiful Margareta Celsing and convinces Gösta to live by promising to care for the Broby clergyman's daughter.

### [III: Christmas Day](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/chapters/part-i-iii-christmas-day)

The major's wife, hostess of the dinner, is publicly humiliated and driven out; she shows strength and refuses to let Captain Christian become a murderer.

### [VII: The Old Vehicles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/chapters/part-i-vii-the-old-vehicles)

The major's wife, now a beggar, plots to drive the pensioners from Ekeby to save her beloved home from ruin.

### [Margareta Celsing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiii-margareta-celsing)

Returns to Ekeby on Christmas Eve, ill and dying, but filled with forgiveness and peace. She offers Ekeby to Gösta Berling but ultimately passes away, her life celebrated by the sound of the sledgehammer.

## Links

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