Sørensen wants nothing more than to clear Qvist's good name and marry Mette. Sørensen is forced to investigate by Bruus's brother, but he does so reluctantly because he is engaged to marry the rector's daughter, Mette, in three weeks. He writes about Søren Qvist, a village rector with a short temper, who is accused of murdering his unlikeable servant, Niels Bruus, when Bruus disappears after a violent argument. The story is told in the form of diary entries by Erik Sørensen, the judge and sheriff of the community of Vejlby. The ministry noted that "the style illuminates elegiac pain and discomfort in an eerily intense drama, and the story is difficult to shake off." Danish literary historian Søren Baggesen stated "Blicher is not just the first of Danish literature's great storytellers, he is one of the few tragic poets Danish literature has ever had." Synopsis In 2006, The Rector of Veilbye was included in the Cultural Canon of Denmark by the Danish Ministry of Culture. Blicher's tragic tale has been adapted for the screen three times by Danish filmmakers. The novella is based upon a true murder case from 1626 in the village of Vejlby near Grenå, Denmark, which Blicher knew partly from Erik Pontoppidan's Danish Church History (1741), and partly through oral tradition. The Rector of Veilbye ( Danish: Præsten i Vejlbye), is a crime mystery written in 1829 by the Danish author Steen Steensen Blicher.
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