Draugen has definitely reaffirmed my belief that any era before the present was a more annoying time to be alive. Just, the logistics of it. In this case, the 20s seem to have been an absolute waste. Imagine getting a letter confirming you re going to stay with someone, sending a letter back, and then travelling for an actual month just to get there.
And then when you turn up the entire village is mysteriously empty, and you have to spend a week sleeping on the sofa downstairs because you re too polite to go upstairs to the guest room in your hosts vacant home without an invite. Jeeze, 1923, be more of a confusing post-war nightmare, why don t you?