The three short lines that Jeppe Aakjær wrote during his early student years as the motto for the new flag of Catilina, the Social Democratic student association, "Fra Folket vi kommer, til Folket vi gaar, dets Lykke skal være vor Lov" (From the folk we come, to the folk we go, its good fortune shall be our law), summarize the ideas that shaped his long authorship. Aakjær was one of a group of authors from Jutland who emerged on the literary scene during the first decades of the twentieth century. They were loosely grouped by critics as the "Jutland movement" or as "folkelige realister" (folk realists) since their realistic mode of writing had a strong connection to the rural folklife of the Jutlandic peasantry. This new hjemstavnslitteratur (regional literature) became a significant literary movement in Denmark even though the authors, as Aakj...