Undset
Americannoun
noun
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“Kristin Lavransdatter,” by Sigrid Undset; translated from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2017
Undset was an obsessive researcher, and her 14th-century Norway has texture down to the dirt of the smithy floor.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2017
Undset was a Catholic convert, and one of the most remarkable things about the trilogy is that it’s a rare literary depiction of religious people that is both empathetic and unsentimental.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2017
Sombre Norwegian story of a young sailor's wife whose son becomes a psychopathic case; a first novel recommended to U. S. readers by Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset.
From Time Magazine Archive
Drawn with reference to the vessel found at Sandefjord in 1880, under the superintendence of Ingvald Undset, Assistant at the Christiania University's collection of Northern antiquities.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
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