The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin—beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate—stands with the world's great literary figures. Volume 1, The Bridal Wreath, describes young Kristin's stormy romance with the dashing Erlend Nikulausson, a young man perhaps overly fond of women, of whom her father strongly disapproves.
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“Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understanding and seriously…than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov.” —Commonweal“No other novelist has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness.” —New York Herald Tribune
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Text: English, Norwegian (translation)
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Not to be missed,
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This review is from: The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol.1 (Paperback)
My father and sister have been after me for years to read this trilogy and I am so glad I finally did. I have been an avid reader all my life and have read many different types of books, but I have always wondered how I would answer the question "what is your all-time favorite book?" Now I know. You care about all the characters, you feel their emotions and I for one am grateful to be living in the 20th century, not 14th century Norway after the incredibly vivid descriptions bring the period to life in an unforgettable way. So much more than a love story, it is the saga of the age old struggle to survive, emotionally and physically. A wonderful book.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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One of the greatest novels in Western Literature,
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This review is from: The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol.1 (Paperback)
I think the three volumes that make up Kristin Lavransdatter rank with the world's greatest novels--including Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. The depth of the characterizations, the completeness with which the author captures life in medieval Norway, and the universal emotions and spiritual and temporal struggles which drive Kristin and those around her are unmatched. I have read these three volumes three times (at about decade long intervals) and each time have found new reasons to love and appreciate them. This is a book against which one can mark one's own life.
19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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this translation is insufferable,
By Dulcinea del Toboso "emarey" (San Antonio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol.1 (Paperback)
This translation is difficult--difficult to read without gagging, that is. It's extremely stilted and affected. Every sentence reads something like this:
"When the child Kristin was seven years old, it so fell out that she got leave to go with her father..." I don't have a problem with archaic language per se, but the translators of this version have no ear for language of any kind, in my opinion, and so this archaic prose never achieves any kind of naturalness. Part of the problem may be that the translators never met an archaism they didn't like. In nearly EVERY line of the book Kristin "must needs" do this or would "nowise that" or so-and-so "was always for making merry." It was so overdone--and so badly done--that I had trouble focusing on the story instead of on the irritating prose. If you're interested in style and prose quality as well as plot, don't even think about buying this version.... get the Penguin translation instead.
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