The young couple, "Asle" and "Alida", has come to the city of Bjørgvin, looking for a place to stay.

Alida is an outcast, her own mother will not recognize her, and Asle is orphaned.

A parallel can be drawn to the fate of Joseph and Mary in the Gospels.

[1] In 2015, Fosse was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the trilogy Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams and Weariness.

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