These "heiresses to European thrones" appear only inside a quasi-Homeric or mock-heroic simile when the narrator of Intruder in the Dust compares Willy Ingrum, who moves to Jefferson from Beat Four, marries "a town girl," and becomes the "town marshal" to the "petty Germanic princelings [who] come down out of their Brandenburg hills to marry the heiresses to European thrones" (133). It's not clear if Faulkner is thinking of specific members of European royalty.
In a kind of mock-Homeric simile, the narrator compares the "apostate sons of Beat Four" in Yoknapatawpha who move into Jefferson and marry "a town girl" to the "petty Germanic princelings [who] would come down out of their Brandenburg hills to marry the heiresses to European thrones" (133). The "son of Beat Four" here is named Willy Ingrum, who is the "town marshal" (133). It's not clear if Faulkner is thinking of any specific German noblemen.
In a kind of mock-Homeric simile, the narrator of Intruder in the Dust compares the "apostate sons of Beat Four" in Yoknapatawpha who move into Jefferson and marry "a town girl" to the "petty Germanic princelings [who] would come down out of their Brandenburg hills to marry the heiresses to European thrones" (133). It's not clear if Faulkner is thinking of any specific German noblemen. (Brandenburg was a province of Prussia until Prussia was abolished after World War II, when Brandenburg became a separate German state.)
The two Marxist immigrants who appear in the novel are explicitly identified as "two Finns," but the novel's account of them leaves several questions unanswered. Since are both Marxists, so there's no obvious reason why they would flee "from Russia in 1917," when the Communists triumph (236). Since they are "Finns," it's not clear why they are escaping "from Russia" (236). The novel never even mentions Finland by name, describing them as "two Arctic Circle immigrants" (237).
Two of the more exotic inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha are the "Finns" in The Mansion who arrive in Jefferson in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution (236). The novel's mention of them leaves a lot of questions unanswered. They are both Marxists, so there's no obvious reason why they would flee after the Revolution. They are called "Finns," but the narrative says they escaped to the U.S. "from Russia" (236). The novel never even mentions Finland by name, describing them as "two Arctic Circle immigrants" (237).
As a widow, Mrs. Harriss is a compulsive traveler, but when the fighting in Europe at the beginning of World War II makes it impossible for her to continue sightseeing in the Old World, according to Charles Mallison's narrative, "it had to be South America" (282).
After the fighting in World War II makes Europe "interdict" for Mrs. Harris, she takes her family traveling in "South America" (170). They spend at least a year there, but the story does not describe their trip. It seems safe to say, however, that she Argentina was on her itinerary, since when she returns she brings with her Sebastian Gualdres, an "Argentine cavalry captain" (170).
Argentina and Nicarauga have their own entries in this index, as do four locations in the Caribbean (Cuba, Haiti, Martinique and the West Indies). The continent of "South America" is referred to in 4 texts. The cigarettes that Harry Mitchell offers Horace Benbow in Flags in the Dust are "imported from South America" (193). In Absalom! it is speculated that Henry Sutpen may have "fled" to the continent after killing Charles Bon (147). But most of the references to "South America" in the fictions are in connection with the tourism of the widowed "Mrs.
