Word: sigrid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MASTER OF HESTVIKEN: The Axe, The Snake Pit. ($3 each). By Sigrid Undset.?Knopf...
...Norwegian nature is a monotone in its cold 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...
...that flies up. . . ." The horror of his unconfessed murder haunted him, but he dared not confess to priest or pauper, lest further disgrace crush delicate Ingunn. She chafed under his kindness, marveled that he could forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing wife, while she?sad martyr?bore him son after still-born son. Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned...
...prize for literature went to Norwegian Novelist Mme. Sigrid Undset. Achievements: early, realistic novels about erotic shopgirls; and, later, masterpieces of medieval grandeur...
...will give a concert tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall, Boston. G. W. Woodworth 2G., who is conducting the Glee Club during the absence of Dr. A. T. Davison, who is taking his sabbatical leave of absence, will lead the club in tomorrow's concert. Mine, Sigrid Onegin, contralto, will sing the solo parts of Glee Club numbers...