Gosta Berling's SagaG sta Berling is a failed parson in nineteenth century rural Sweden, too fond of pleasure and the drink, torn by conflicting aims the charm and deceit, love and laziness in him fighting for supremacy. He teams together with a group of sometimes dissolute, often well meaning freemen of their district to evict the seemingly mad owner of a great rambling house at the centre of its own semi feudal estate, Ekeby. This group call themselves the cavaliers.