Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath, Book 1, (Paperback)

from lauralkeet

Kristin Lavransdatter is a 3-volume Norwegian epic set in the 14th century. The eponymous heroine is born to an influential and prosperous farmer, Lavrans, and his wife Ragnfrid. She is their seventh, but first surviving, child, and understandably the apple of Lavrans' eye. The first volume, The ...

from ctpress

Norwegian author Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize in 1928, mainly because of her 1000+ pages long trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter - a rich and complex tale set in medieval 14th century Norway. The first novel The Wreath follow Kristin as a child and in her youth where the difficult matchmaking tak...

from starbox

Historical fiction often falls flat by trying to portray a modern-day woman with a 21st century mindset in a long ago setting. Undsets Nobel prize winning tale of a 14th century girl manages to completely avoid this, and is a pretty compulsive read. Kristin starts out as a child on a middle class...

from harryo19

I'm glad to see that there's another translation of this book. The tortured syntax of this version can make you think that this was written by Yoda. Years ago, before I had forgotten my Norwegian, I read this in the original. It was a tough go with many, necessarily, archaic words that weren't in...

from Donna828

This timeless tale of the pain of forbidden love was written in the 1920's and set in the medieval period, but, hey, things haven't changed much. People still make hurtful decisions and have to live with the consequences. Kristin is very young and passionate, and doesn't seem to care who she "tra...