Un extraño llega a trabajar a la granja de la viuda Halla. Pronto ambos caerán en las redes del amor, pero todo se vendrá abajo cuando el turbio pasado del hombre salga a la luz. Decididos, sin embargo, a seguir juntos, deciden dejarlo todo y refugiarse en las montañas de Islandia, aunque eso signifique vivir en la miseria.
La película se basa en las 52 estrofas del poema épico del mismo nombre (1882), que narra la dramática historia del marinero Terje Vigen, que durante las guerras Napoleónicas (1807-1814), iba en barca desde Mandal a Dinamarca para llevarle cebada a su hambrienta familia.
Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with a woman named Ester, who is reading a letter and crying. The letter says that a man named George won't marry her, because he knows his father would never allow him to marry a Jewish woman. Ester dies of childbirth, and possibly a broken heart. Her suitor Jakob takes care of her son, who is named Josef, and sends George a note, accusing him of causing her death
Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.
