1922Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset
In fourteenth-century Norway, Kristin, daughter of the landowner Lavrans in the Gudbrandsdal valley, defies her betrothal for a passionate, ruinous love, and lives out a long life of desire, guilt, motherhood and faith that ends amid the Black Death. Undset's Nobel-winning trilogy maps a real medieval Norway: the valley farm of Kristin's childhood, the cathedral city of Nidaros where she seeks absolution, the convent at Oslo, and her husband's estate in Trøndelag.
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