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Sigrid Undset
1) The wreath
Author
Series
Kristin Lavransdatter volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Published in 1920, "The Wreath" is the first book in the "Kristin Lavransdatter" trilogy by the Nobel Prize winning Norwegian author Sigrid Undset. Beloved for its historical and cultural accuracy, the stories follow the life of the main character, Kristin Lavransdatter, a fictional Norwegian woman living in the 14th century in the Gudbrand Valley in Norway. In "The Wreath" readers are introduced to Kristin at a young age at her family's prosperous...
2) The cross
Author
Series
Kristin Lavransdatter volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1954
Description
First published in English in 1927, "The Cross" is the final book in the "Kristin Lavransdatter" trilogy, which depicts the life of a Norwegian woman from her childhood to her death in the 14th century. The first book in the series, "The Wreath", follows the young Kristin as she clashes with her family, who are religious and prosperous farmers, while she falls in love with, and eventually marries, a man that her parents do not approve of. In the second...
3) The axe
Author
Series
Master of Hestviken volume 1
Description
In thirteenth-century Norway, Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter, who were raised as brother and sister, give in to their passion and become lovers, unaware that their relationship will lead them into a web of murder, exile, and disgrace.
Author
Publisher
Sheed and Ward
Pub. Date
1954
Description
Sigrid Undset's Catherine of Siena was critically acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this well-known and amazing fourteenth-century saint. Known for her historical fiction, Undset based this factual work on primary sources about Catherine of Siena, her own experiences living in Italy, and her profound understanding of the human heart.
