Identity and portrayal
Appearance
Red-cheeked and broad from youth, later broad-shouldered and quick-handed, with his father Yarin's heavy jaw and his mother's pale eyes.
Voice and manner
Loud, competitive and entitled, with mockery built to keep Jorgen below him. Near death, the performance strips down to blunt honesty.
Skills, Essan and limitations
Woodcutting, axe competition, strength and courage under the final attack.
Knowledge limits
Knows village opinion and Jorgen's history from the outside; he never fully understands the curse before death.
Core psychology
External goalProve himself the best young woodcutter and maintain the status he believes his father's respect has given him.
Internal needChoose an action worth more than dominance or village approval.
FearJorgen's strength making Olaf small, wrong or irrelevant in front of Ingrid and the village.
Defining flaw or pressurePride turns skill into cruelty and makes him provoke a power he already fears.
Arc by story stage
ChildhoodBullies Jorgen and leads the opposing side in games that expose Jorgen's dangerous strength.
Young adulthoodBecomes a skilled woodcutter whose competence gives arrogance deeper roots.
AttackActs courageously in the crisis rather than preserving himself.
DeathAsks Jorgen to tell Ingrid he did one decent thing and is named among Gyllenfall's dead.
