The life of Margit Sandemo could be lifted straight from one of her sagas. The daughter of a Swedish countess who abandoned her privileged upbringing to marry a crofter, Sandemo undoubtedly inherited her writing talent from her father the illegitimate son of a Nobel Prize Winner for Literature Ibsens friend and rival, Bjornsterne Bjornson. Now in her eighties, Margits other great passion is white water rafting.