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To: RosieCotton

"Um...try checking it out!"

That would be the sensical thing to do, which is why I haven't done it yet :) It sounds good, though! I miss my Half-Price. . .

And yes, I've caught up now, so "Kristin Lavransdatter", got it :) Have no idea what that is but I suppose you're going to tell me I can try checking it out :)


3,445 posted on 07/23/2004 9:05:15 AM PDT by Fedora (Halfliquid Astrologer (HLA))
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To: Fedora
Have no idea what that is but I suppose you're going to tell me I can try checking it out :)

Yep... ;-)

I tried finding a summary that doesn't spoil anything, but found it tough. Here's one that's almost TOO vague...

In Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922), Sigrid Undset interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life—her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faith—profoundly influenced her writing. Her grasp of the connections between past and present and of human nature itself, combined with the extraordinary quality of her writing, sets her works far above the genre of "historical novels."

3,448 posted on 07/23/2004 9:21:53 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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