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"Positioning Undset has been a difficult task for researchers, because her Catholicism and realism fall outside the liberal-national,...
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- Dec 15, 2023
- 6 min
Sigrid Undset on St Sunniva
From the earliest times of Christianity, the Catholic Church has raised women to the highest honours by their veneration as saints....
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- May 3, 2023
- 12 min
The Sacrifice of Abraham
Undset compares this biblical episode with paganism contemporary with and after Abraham. She derides the already fashionable idea of...
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- Apr 14, 2023
- 10 min
A Book that Changed her Life
Here Sigrid writes of the book which had the greatest influence on her in childhood, and in fact helped shape her epic writing in the...
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- Jan 10, 2023
- 3 min
Visit to Norway
It's been almost a month since I returned from a recent four weeks' stay in Norway. The purpose of the visit was to improve my fluency in...
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- Sep 21, 2022
- 4 min
Paul Selmer's introduction to Catholics
From Sigrid Undset's The Wild Orchid. While studying geology at university, Paul decides to move into the city from his mother Julie's...
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- Sep 14, 2022
- 18 min
Synopsis: The Burning Bush
Synopsis of the sequel to The Wild Orchid. In this second part of the Paul Selmer duology, Paul finally becomes a Catholic, he and Bjørg...
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- Sep 2, 2022
- 13 min
Synopsis: The Wild Orchid
Here is my synopsis of the first part of Undset's tale of Paul Selmer, a young man in early twentieth century Christiania [Oslo] who is...
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- Jul 16, 2022
- 13 min
Synopsis: The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter)
Another spoiler alert! Here is my synopsis of the third book of the great trilogy, for those who haven't the time to read it, or for...
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- Jun 1, 2022
- 1 min
The Unreasonableness of Catholicism
Is it strange that we think that beneath the perspective of other Christians and non-Christians with their seeming reasonableness and...
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- May 24, 2022
- 10 min
Synopsis: The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter)
Another spoiler alert! Here is my synopsis of the second book of the great trilogy, for those who haven't the time to read it, or for...
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- May 24, 2022
- 6 min
Synopsis: The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter)
Another spoiler alert! Here is my synopsis of the first book of the great trilogy, for those who haven't the time to read it, or for...
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- Apr 4, 2022
- 1 min
Andrew Lytle's Kristin
Having re-read Kransen / The Wreath, the first of the Lavransdatter trilogy, I took to reading Kristin: A Reading by Andrew Lytle....
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- Mar 29, 2022
- 2 min
Medieval Religious Ribaldry
Here is an amusing tale from Kristin Lavransdatter (The Wreath), which has undertones of the Canterbury Tales. Medieval man might have...
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- Mar 23, 2022
- 4 min
Kristin's First Encounter with Brother Edvin
I'm rereading Kristin Lavransdatter, since the first time I didn't take any notes. I am kicking myself, but at the time, I didn't quite...
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- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min
Sigrid Undset — A Catholic Woman for Our Time
Another article here, this time by Donald DeMarco at National Catholic Register.
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- Feb 8, 2022
- 1 min
Kristin's Courage in the Plague
Here you will find an interesting article about Kristin Lavransdatter's attitude to the pandemic of her own time: the Black Death. It...
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- Jan 25, 2022
- 4 min
Thoughts on Catherine of Siena
A friend who runs a book club is looking at adding Sigrid Undset's Catherine of Siena to their list and asked me for my thoughts on the...
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- Jan 25, 2022
- 1 min
It's been a long time between aquavits!
One would think that through all this time of the corona-era, one would have plenty of time to write some posts here. However, it's been...
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- Jan 20, 2021
- 8 min
Gunnar's Daughter: A Brief Synopsis
SPOILER ALERT ! Fortellingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis. This was Sigrid Undset's first historical and second full length novel, modelled...
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