History Series / Borderland

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Eyolf
** TheLancer: Karl Martin
** TheBigGuy: Inge.
** TheSmartGuy: Lillan
** TheHeart: Mai. The roles may vary somewhat throughout the group, when Inge also doubles as TheKirk (classical leader type) and Eyolf being the DeadpanSnarker. Lillan is a smartass who always questions the authorities of the boys.

** TheChick: Mai. The roles may vary somewhat throughout the group, when Inge also doubles as TheKirk (classical leader type) and Eyolf being the DeadpanSnarker. Lillan is a smartass who always questions the authorities of the boys.

* TrenchcoatBrigade: This ''is'' the thirties after all. Both Eyolf and Karl Martin dons a fedora and a trenchcoat. During the war, Karl Martin swaps this for the classical Norwegian "resistance" gear: a cap, a wind jacket, plusfours, boots and (sometimes) the iconic [[https://digitaltmuseum.no/021025491863/sekk-norsk-ryggsekk-fra-bergans Bergans backpack]]. Inge, being a worker, wears a sixpence all the way.

* InfantImmortality: Tragically subverted. First, Mai miscarries. Second, she gives birth to a child which dies from complications (actually Down`s syndrome) early on, and she only succeeds in having a healthy child the third time around.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Paula, Mai´s mother, entered the Norwegian resistance and was taken in for questioning. Unfortunately, she ''knew German'' and could answer accordingly, with two results: They didn´t get anything usual out of her, and she gained herself the nickname ''Donnerwetter''. This happened in an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome. She is also GenreSavvy to a point where she knows Karl Martin is released to be used as bait, and orders him to lay low. She ''is'' a grandmother at this point of the story.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Discussed. While our heroes are trying to get their grips on the SpanishCivilWar, they complain the lack of interest from the greater public. The Summer Olympics in Munich is of greater interest, [[ApatheticCitizens because the Norwegian football team won themselves a bronze medal]].

* CanonForeigner: Konrad. He is not present in the original books, but was written into the series because of the need for a Norwegian volunteer in the SpanishCivilWar. He is essentially imported from another book, ''Betrayal'' by author Dag Solstad, written in 1977. Konrad is a CompositeCharacter, voicing the leanings of the old communist Simenstad, while the veteran traits come from the character Lindgren. The discussion on the matter of the Finland campaign is almost lifted verbatim from this book.

The series tells the story of the aspiring journalist Karl Martin Baardsen, and his ups and downs inside the struggling working class movement in a small Norwegian town during the era of TheGreatDepression, and subsequently during WorldWarII. Karl Martin grew up as the son of a railroad worker, who had enough money to give his son a higher education. Thus, Karl Martin managed to graduate, barely, before his father was injured in a working accident. The times being what they were, forced Karl Martin out of further education, and had to take up work in a brick factory. Here, he met with two of his childhood pals, the pretty radical Jostein (from a weird place they call "the paradise"), and the bullyish Edvard, somewhat more conservative in his leanings (the two are constantly at blows). Karl Martin seems to be stuck in between them, but joins Jostein in the cause for the working class, and their struggle for higher wages. When it gets known that he is an apt writer, a local newspaper man secures him a job in another town, and he breaks up and leaves.

* TheGreatDepression: Most of the series take place in this period, segueing into WorldWarII.

* LaResistance: During the war.
* LesCollaborateurs: Edvard. After dissing Jostein and Karl Martin for their socialism early on, he proceeds to kill Jostein at the beginning of the war in Norway, and then goes on to arrest Karl Martin - at his father´s deathbed nonetheless.

* TrenchcoatBrigade: This ''is'' the thirties after all. Both Eyolf and Karl Martin dons a fedora and a trenchcoat. During the war, Karl M artin swaps this for the classical Norwegian "resistance" gear: a cap, a wind jacket, plusfours, boots and (sometimes) the iconic [[https://digitaltmuseum.no/021025491863/sekk-norsk-ryggsekk-fra-bergans Bergans backpack]]. Inge, being a worker, wears a sixpence all the way.

* TrenchcoatBrigade: This ''is'' the thirties after all, Both Eyolf and Karl Martin dons a fedora and a trenchcoat. During the war, Karl M artin swaps this for the classical Norwegian "resistance" gear: a cap, a wind jacket, plusfours, boots and (sometimes) the iconic [[https://digitaltmuseum.no/021025491863/sekk-norsk-ryggsekk-fra-bergans Bergans backpack]]. Inge, being a worker, wears a sixpence all the way.