![]() Her life is real, her experiences difficult, the choices she makes disastrous, but she also matures as a woman, finds forgiveness, and follows an interior journey of spiritual development. Set in medieval Scandinavia, the trilogy follows Kristin as she grows up, makes mistakes, sins, and fights her way to redemption and happiness. ![]() Written at a time when women in novels were often either docile and lacking personality or sinful seductresses heading to a bad end, Kristin is neither. Undset is a remarkable woman and deserves to be a feminist hero simply for her life-story alone.īut Kristin Lavransdatter reflects the personality of its author. ![]() One of the charities she supported served mentally disabled children, and her passion for this arose from being a mother of two children of her own who struggled with disabilities, one of whom she had adopted. And a few years after that, she would win the Nobel Prize for literature and donate all the prize money to charity. A few years later, Undset would be received into the Catholic Church. In 1920, a Norwegian woman named Sigrid Undset published a historical novel called Kristin Lavransdatter. ![]() ![]() Women of every age will find a treasure in this coming-of-age novel set in 4th-century Norway. ![]()
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