Singoalla (novel)

Singoalla (1857) is a historical novel written by Swedish author Viktor Rydberg and is one of the author's most important works. The book takes place during the Middle Ages in the province of Småland and revolves around the love between the knight's son Erland Månesköld and the mysterious Romani girl Singoalla. The novel was first published in the Gothenburg calendar Aurora, then with the subtitle Romantisk sagodikt (Romantic Fairy Tale Poem). The first edition of the book was published in 1865, then with a revised happy ending instead of the original unhappy one. The first English translation was published in 1904.