With the hope of having it published, she In 1900 she began to work on a historical novel, finishing the Time, and wrote long letters to her Swedish pen pal, Andrea (Dea) Undset kept the job for the next ten years, read on her spare Wisbech Electrical Company, where she worked nine-hour days. Mother and two sisters, Undset went to work as a secretary for the Movement, Undset took a secretarial training course. After passing the middle-level examĪt a school run by Ragna Nielsen, a supporter of the suffragist Ingvald became the model for Lavrans Bjørgulfsson in Kristin Lavransdotter (1920-22). Undset's mother sold her husband's collection of booksĪnd antiques, many of which Undset later searched for and acquiredīack. " Ingvald Undset died inġ893, at the age of forty, and the family's financial situationĭeteriorated. Skarphedin, with his black eyes and pale face. Lost all other awareness: "I could see it all so clearly that it hurt. (now Oslo), Norway, where her father took a position at theĪ defining moment in Undset's childhood was when aįamily friend gave her a copy of Njals Saga. When she was two years old, the family moved to Christiania In general, but she never shared her mother's critical attitude toward From her mother Undsed derived realistic view of life
Through his father's influence, Undset developedĪ fascination with medieval history and sagas, ballads, and mythology Sigrid Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, the eldestĭaughter of Ingvald, an archeologist, and Anna Charlotte, the daughter Lavransdatter I, 1920, translated by Tiina Nunnally) Was going to be a hot day later on." (from Kristin But above the crests, white fair-weather cloudsĬlimbed into the blue sky, and Lavrans and his men said it Rained hard during the night so the streams were splashing and singingĮverywhere on the hillsides, and wisps of fog drifted below the Unfaithful for their true inner self or idealistically challenge Often her heroines face tragic consequences when they are Her early fiction dealt with contemporary subjects, problems of city Novels about life in the Scandinavian countries during the Middle Ages. All pages are unmodified as they originally appeared some links and images may no longer function. The original website was published by Petri Liukkonen under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 1.0 Finland and reproduced here under those terms for non-commercial use. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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