Word: kristin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER: The Bridal Wreath, The Mistress of Husaby, The Cross. One volume Nobel Prize Edition...
...indifference Ibsen somewhat dispelled by his twin studies of the two Norwegian extremes: 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...
...Kristin, casually seduced by Erlend, so passionately loves him that she brutally jilts her own betrothed, forces Erlend's promised bride to suicide, marries Erlend herself. Then, goaded by the priesthood, her conscience slowly besets her. She carps at Erlend, embitters her seven sons, torments herself, until at last Erlend is killed in a brawl and she herself dies in a nunnery...
...first rilogy that earned Author Undset the Nobel prize, for Kristin Lavransdatter combines the glamor of saga with the timelessness of fine fiction, the accuracy of sound history...