![]() ![]() Undset's telling of the coming and early establishment of Christianity in Norway, with the stories of several prominent early saints, bishops, missionaries, and martyrs. ![]() Dust jacket shows light edgewear bottom edge of front panel has a short closed tear top edge of rear panel has 1.5 inch closed tear not price clipped ($2.50) a bit of dust-soiling to the top margin of the flaps in a clear archival sleeve. Kings of Norway and historical characters in Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter Kristin Lavransdatter, the protagonist Lavrans Bjrgulfsson, her father (also referred to as Lavrans Langmandsson) Ragnfrid Ivarsdatter, Kristin's melancholy mother. Some toning to endpapers, else interior is clean and unmarked. ![]() Top edge of boards and text block are dust-speckled. She fled Norway in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German occupation, but returned after the end of World War II in 1945. In 1924, she converted to Catholicism and became a lay Dominican. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. ![]()
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