![]() There is an enormous change in their lives because of Erlend’s deep involvement in Norwegian politics, his emprisonment and being stripped of his wealth and property. The second volume moves us from her father’s farm/estate of Jorundgaard to Erlend’s gigantic estate of Husaby in western Norway, and the birth of 7 of their children. The first volume follows Kristin from her days of young childhood, through an engagement, spell in a convent, a tempestuous affair and eventually marriage to Erlend. While the central character of the novel is Kristin Lavransdatter, others come to the fore as important characters, especially her parents, her husband Erlend and her once-fiance, Simon and their families as well.Īuthor Sigrid Undset divided this epic into three separate novels and that seems to work quite well to describe the central action. ![]() ![]() This magnificent epic is set in Norway in the fourteenth century. ![]() Book review - By Sigrid Undset – KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER Reviews of Nobel Prize winner ![]()
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