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Undset won the Nobel Prize for Kristin Lavransdatter. I agree with you that
Master of Hestviken is even better, but do not wonder that it is less
popular, since the focus is not action or romance but Olav's agonies of
conscience.
The new translation is by Tiina Nunnally (Penguin 2005). I haven't read it,
but a 14 year old of my acquaintance, who had turned up his nose the
previous year at the Knopf edition, liked it very much.
Bernadette
K.L. is the most common (in the U.S.) of her books --a trilogy, actually--
because it was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection/bonus.
but i think that Master of Hestviken is her best, a quadrilogy which begins
with an elopment, develops into a Blood Feud and lasts generations.
she spent most of the Second World War in the U.S. and i have found quite a
few signed copies of her books (one in a Salvation Army store in Memphis).
a very nice, firm yet tiny signature, usually in an unusually colored ink.
>The new translation of the last avoids archaic English.
i haven't seen the "new translation".
didn't know there was one.
Carl Jung's favorite author, btw. --mainly for her non-medieval novels, i
believe.
c
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