![]() ![]() ![]() Catholic critics seem to have forgotten her. ![]() Yet today, who has heard of her? Feminist critics, who might be expected to champion her, dislike her Catholicism. Undset (1882–1949) won the 1928 Nobel Prize for Literature for her novels, primarily the historical trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter, and the tetralogy The Master of Hestviken, sagas of life in medieval Norway. I have another friend who thanks me to this day for introducing him to Sigrid Undset. It should have been common ground for us. “You should have told me about her earlier,” my friend said to me. from The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset, translated Tiina Nunnally But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.” “I’ve done many things that I thought I would never dare do because they were sins. “You didn’t dare because it was sin,” said Fru Aashild. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.” “ Do you remember, Aunt, you once told me that it’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. ![]()
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