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Inspired by tales of the hero Vilmund Vidutan and his fellow knights, Sigurd Jonsson and his young friends Ivar and Helge set out to reenact these exploits on their medieval Norwegian farm. They carve swords and lances and spend hours making shields. With a little imagination, a pasture becomes a battlefield, an old boar their greatest foe, and they pass many hours jousting and dueling. But when the summer is nearly over, the three boys stumble into real trouble and must prove their courage in an adventure all their own.

Written during Sigrid Undset's time in New York,...

- Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.- --Slate

The turbulent historical masterpiece of Norway's literary master
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally's award-winning definitive translation brings this...

Sigrid Undsets frühe Erzählung Das glückliche Alter erschienen 1908. Es ist die Geschichte von einigen jungen Frauen, die mit Anfang Zwanzig also in diesem »glücklichen Alter«, auf der Suche sind: nach sich selbst, nach dem Leben, nach dem Mann ihres Lebens, nach Reichtum und Glück. Ein Erzählung vom Anfang des Jahrhunderts, die jung geblieben ist in der Schilderung von Aufbruch, Ausbruch, durch den unvoreingenommenen Blick auf die Widersprüche von Sehnsucht und Realität.

Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life--her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faith--profoundly influenced her writing. Her grasp of the...