Antagonist

Character Role Analysis

The Irish

For the most part, everyone in this book gets along with one another. You sort of have to when nature is desperately trying to kill you. The biggest human-on-human conflict we get in this story comes midway through, when a group of Irish settlers tries to claim the land that's been farmed by Tönseten and Hans Olsa.

Per Hansa has destroyed the stakes that the Irish used to mark off their land, and the Irish aren't too happy about it. Who can blame them? A fight breaks out, but quickly ends when Hans Olsa manhandles the biggest Irish dude. So that's the end of the Irish threat. The Irish decide to head down the road and end up buying a lot of produce from Per Hansa.