It is argued that the novel’s composition and important parts of its structure are based on models from the Christian tradition of typology and that the two volumes are interconnected in a similar way as the Old and the New Testaments.
In this article, a new light is shed on the novel’s relation to Christian traditions. An exception to this is Gunnar Kristjánsson who treats this subject in his book Fjallræðufólkið (The People from the Sermon on the Mount, 2002). Consequently, scholars have not paid much attention to the novel’s religious aspects. In Alþýðubókin (The People’s Book), a collection of essays published in 1929, he emerged as a fully-fledged socialist and advocate of a rigorously scientific understanding of the human condition. When Salka Valka was published, Laxness had turned his back on the Catholic faith, which he had converted to as a young man. The novel is generally considered to be the author’s first mature work as well as his first social-realist novel.
Halldór Laxness’s novel, Salka Valka, was originally published in two volumes in 19.
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