and burned the manuscript. "From the ashes", he relates, arose The Outlaw, which was "undoubtedly influenced by Bjørnson's masterly one-acter Between the Battles, which I found to be ideal as a model. For in the course of time people had grown impatient and had come to expect swift results. Thus the tempo increased". References Further reading Hird, Gladys, 'Strindberg's The Outlaw and Old Norse literature' in Gabriel Turville-Petre and John Stanley Martin, eds, Iceland and the Medieval World. Studies in Honour of Ian Maxwell, Clayton, Vic.: Wilke and Company Limited (Pr.), 1974, pp. 79–89 External links The Outlaw, scanned books at Internet Archive 1871 plays Plays by August Strindberg One-act plays Plays set in the Viking Age Plays set in Iceland