Sigrid Undset walked into the manager’s office of the Aschehoug publishing company, one of the largest in Norway, and tossed G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man (1925) onto his desk, exclaiming that ...

KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER: The Bridal Wreath, The Mistress of Husaby, The Cross. One volume Nobel Prize Edition ($3). THE MASTER OF HESTVIKEN: The Axe, The Snake Pit. ($3 each). By Sigrid Undset.—Knopf.

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in America on June 13, 1942. [A paper read at the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, New York, May 24.—Literary ...

GUNNAR’S DAUGHTER—Sigrid Undset— Knopf ($2). In company with a good many contemporary European novelists, Sigrid Undset has a faculty for making the life of the past appear rich and meaningful in ...

On June 10, 1949, Nobel prize-winning author Sigrid Undset died in Lillehammer, Norway. Although she was born in Denmark, she had lived most of her life in Norway and had been awarded The Royal ...

Set in the early years of the 14 th century, "Crossroads" is the third volume of Norwegian Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset's tetralogy, "Olav Audunssøn." Given that it's one part of a whole, you'll be ...

“Providence” follows “Vows,” the first volume in the Nobel-Prize-winning Sigrid Undset’s tetrology, “Olav Audunsson,” set in the 13th century and published in Norwegian in 1925 and 1927. The books, ...

Before Thor hung out with the Hulk and Iron Man, he starred in a blockbuster series of Norwegian folk tales that nearly every child in Norway, from the Viking era onward, knows. But Thor is not just ...

Sigrid Undset, trans. from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally. Univ. of Minnesota, $17.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-5179-1048-8 This sweeping epic of 13th-century Norway by Nobel winner Undset ...