![]() ![]() A wreath, worn on loose hair, is the symbol of an unmarried woman in 14th-century Norwegian society, and indeed Kristin is only a girl when we first meet her. The first book is called The Wreath, an object whose symbolism winds through the book. ![]() The story, which is over 1100 pages long, is actually a trilogy. It has been on my TBR list for a long time, and in 2005 it came out in a beautiful new Penguin Classic translation by Tiina Nunnally, eliminating all the thees and thous and methinkses and restoring some crucial scenes that had previously been bowdlerized, and so I thought this was the perfect time to begin it. Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset’s epic and yet intensely personal story of one woman’s medieval Norway, won the Nobel prize for literature in 1928. ![]()
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