Gunnar Hedes Saga

Gunnar Hede is raised by a strict mother who wants him to become respectable to match his familys wealth He is more interested in his grandfather who started as an itinerant violin player but got rich by leading a herd of wild reindeer south to market He falls for a violinist working with a married couple of traveling performers and renounces his fortune to go with them He then tries to earn a fortune by driving reindeer to market but it doesnt work out and he goes insane He is finally restored to sanity by the violinist when she returns with the performers