Skoggangsmand

Skoggangsmand (English: Outlaw) is the debut novel of Norwegian writer Mikkjel Fønhus, first published in 1917.

The main character is a wild-tempered young boy, Hans Trefothaugen, who gets involved in fights and a stabbing, and ends up as an outlaw living in the forests.

While enjoying the independent way of life in the wilderness, he is also desperately longing for the woman Ingrid Ødden, whom he knew from their childhood, and who later married.

It was received with enthusiasm by the later Danish Nobel laureate Johannes V. Jensen, literary critic for the newspaper Politiken.

[3] Fønhus' literary breakthrough came with his next books, first the story collection Der Vildmarken suser, and the subsequent novels Det skriker fra Kverrvilljuvet and Troll-Elgen.