"Faderen" (The Father) is a short story published in 1860 by the Norwegian writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in his collection Smaastykker (Small Pieces).
[1] The theme is related to the lidelsens høgskole 'college of suffering', a concept that Bjørnson developed when he read texts by the German preacher Ludwig Hofacker in the summer of 1859.
Sixteen years later, Thord comes to the priest's living room, and asks to have his son confirmed.
One day they are out rowing and talking about the wedding, and then the son falls out of the boat, goes stiff, and drowns.
On the morning of the third day, he finds his son's body and carries him up the slopes back to his farm.