Birte from Aursfjord, a strong-willed young woman with extraordinary psychic abilities, falls in love with a Sámi, but is forced to marry a local man.
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Birte
Niillas
Benjamin
Ailo Korach
Prost Mogens Ebeltoft
Karen Andersdatter
Mathias Knudsen
Løstig-Gjertrud
Kaisa Barro
Ole Knudsen
Lensmann Ole Larsen
Jens
Ole Kjeldsen
Mestermann Olof Jonsson
Mira
Stabbursmusa
Ravne-Peder
Kjøttside-Mikkel
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Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.
Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.
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