![]() Volume 111, The Cross, shows Kristin still indomitable, reconstructing her world after the devastation of the Black Death and the loss of almost everything that she has loved. ![]() ![]() Volume 11, The Mistress of Husaby, tells of Kristin's troubled and eventful married life on the great estate of Husaby, to which her husband has taken her. Or, as I read it, a 45 hour long audiobook. But, let’s also clarify that this is actually a trilogy, now published as a 1100+ page behemoth. In fact, Undset is so revered that she won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928, after Kristin was published. Volume 1, The Bridal Wreath, describes young Kristin's stormy romance with the dashing Erlend Nikulausson, a young man perhaps overly fond of women, of whom her father strongly disapproves. Kristin Lavransdatter is a Norwegian literature classic by Sigrid Undset. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate stands with the world's great literary figures. ![]() She fled Norway in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German occupation, but returned after the end of World War II in 1945. In 1924, she converted to Catholicism and became a lay Dominican. ![]() 1 9780394752990k 288 pages Vol 11 9780394752938 377 pages Vol 111 9780394752914 416 pages About the book: The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. ![]()
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