Word: hestviken
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...Sigrid Undset, now 50, lives in a house over 900 years old on the shore of a lake in the valley of Lillehammer, Norway. When she looks up from her writing, she sees on her desk a photograph of U. S. Authoress Willa Gather. Other books: The Master of Hestviken, Jenny, Krist
...Norway they write long novels. The Son Avenger, although complete in itself, is only the fourth and last section of The Master of Hestviken, life story of Olav Audunsson. In long words it might be called the definitive section of an historical tetralogy...
...MASTER OF HESTVIKEN: The Axe, The Snake Pit. ($3 each). By Sigrid Undset.?Knopf...
...Peer Gynt, shiftless, debonair; and Brandt, steadfast, bitterly serious-minded. To dispel another popular impression?that the Vikings were god-like blonds exclusively engaged in swift sea fights?Sigrid Undset in turn makes twin studies: the Kristin Lavrans datter trilogy of some 500,000 words, and The Master of Hestviken, unfinished tetralogy. Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death. But in Kristin Lavransdatter the heroine, for such she is, glows in all the golden vitality appropriate to a Viking female, and her man is a pagan philanderer; in The Master...
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