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	Sigrid Undset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sigrid Undset as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1927.
		Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old.
		Undset experimented with modernist tropes such as stream of consciousness in her novel, although the original English translation by Charles Archer excised many of these passages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sigrid_Undset (293 words)

	Undset, Sigrid on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Undset is most famous for her historical novels dealing with universal human problems.
		Undset came to the United States after the Nazi invasion of Norway (1940) and made a successful lecture tour of the country before returning home in 1945.
		Her work fell into obscurity during the latter half of the 20th cent., but interest in her writing was revived beginning in the 1990s, sparked by the publication of new and improved translations.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/U/Undset-S1.asp (363 words)

	Reading Sigrid Undset Today
		Undset's beloved father died at 43 when she was only 11, but he had introduced her at a very young age to the Norse sagas that she soon precociously learned to read in Old Norse and Old Icelandic.
		Undset refused a scholarship to a university to avoid being pigeonholed as a future teacher, a profession to which she felt no inclination.
		By Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath, the Mistress of Husaby, the Cross; The Master of Hestvike (in four volumes): The Axe, The Snake Pit, In the Wilderness, The Son Avenger; Jenny.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0008.html (2546 words)

	SIGRID UNDSET
		Sigrid Undset is one of the three Norwegian authors (and so far the most recent one) to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
		Undset received the Prize in 1928, for her powerful description of life during the Middle Ages in Scandinavia, as the Nobel Literary Committee in Sweden put it at the time.
		At last, after years of moves and changes, Sigrid Undset, the writer, had a quiet place to which she could retreat from the world at large in order to do the one thing she now knew she was really good at; writing.
	www.gonorway.no /go/undset.html (4274 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Sigrid Undset's Time Warp
		Undset was nothing if not gung ho when it came to her preferences, whether it was her love of Scandinavian medieval history or of the Catholic Church.
		Undset's daughter died at the age of 23, shortly before the 1940 invasion, and her older son was killed in action soon afterward, just a few miles from their home.
		Undset continued to refute the errors of the Nazis during her five years in America, as she lectured and gave radio addresses around the country.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=907 (1386 words)

	Odin - Sigrid Undset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) is one of the three Norwegian authors (and so far the most recent one) to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
		Sigrid Undset was born on 20 May 1882, at Kalundborg, in Denmark, at her mother's handsome childhood home on the market place of the small town.
		Svarstad painted, and Undset developed strong ties with English art and letters, which were to be of decisive importance to her for the rest of her life.
	odin.dep.no /odin/engelsk/norway/history/032005-990482/index-dok000-b-n-a.html (4308 words)

	Sigrid Undset: Catholic Viking
		Evelyn Waugh or Graham Greene; Sigrid Undset is almost unknown: which is a perplexing state of affairs given that she wrote some of the greatest fiction of the 20th Century.
		The man Sigrid had fallen in love with was not the same man she ended up in a marriage with and neither was good at compromise.
		But it is the special knack Undset has for portraying mothers and their children that fills the reader with awe; and as for her descriptions of Norway: its rivers, lakes, mountains; its villages, livestock, crops and weather: just close your eyes and you're there.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0173.html (2717 words)

	Sigrid Undset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sigrid Undset's themes are obviously Norwegian, but equally obviously European at the same time, in the same way that James Joyce's themes are intensely and exclusively Irish.
		Sigrid was no more than 16 years old when she made her first uncertain attempt at writing a novel set in the Nordic Middle Ages.
		Undset's books sold well from the start, and after the publication of her third book, she quit the office job, and made arrangements for living on her income as a writer.
	www.reisenett.no /norway/facts/culture_science/sigrid_undset.html (3811 words)

	Kristin Lavransdatter II - Sigrid Undset - Penguin Group (USA)
		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.
		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.
		Undset's ability to present a meticulously accurate historical portrait without sacrificing the poetry and narrative drive of masterful storytelling was particularly significant in her homeland.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141181281,00.html (266 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Undset is best known for her novels about life in the Scandinavian countries during the Middle Ages.
		Sigrid Undset was born in Kallundborg, Denmark, the daughter an archaeologist.
		Undset derived a realistic view of life from her Danish mother, but she never shared her mother's critical attitude toward religion.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/undset_sigrid.html (1348 words)

	Biography of Sigrid Undset
		With her literary and historical expertise, acquired first-hand, her thorough knowledge of nature and her understanding of its significance for all of us, Sigrid Undset has enormous riches, emotional and intellectual, to draw on.
		Her father, Ingvald Undset, was an internationally respected archaeologist, whose special subject was the Iron Age in Europe, with Norse and European pre-history as supplementary fields.
		Sigrid Undset was born on May 20, 1882, at Kalundborg, in Denmark, at her mother's handsome childhood home on the market place of the small town.
	www.mnc.net /norway/SigUnd.htm (4279 words)

	www.fagboginfo.dk - Sigrid Undset
		At erfare kærligheden var for Sigrid Undset det dybeste og mest afgørende i menneskelivet og derfor det centrale tema i hendes digtning.
		Han inddrager Undsets samtid, den europæiske kontekst hun skrev i og det liv hun levede.
		Undsets katolisisme og det moderne (mellom to konsil; Undset og den moderne roman).
	www.fagboginfo.dk /Jtonul/jtonulzm.htm (493 words)

	THE UNKNOWN SIGRID UNDSET
		In one of those letters, Undset, at 18, writes to Dea: ''Life is glorious - whether or not it holds happiness for you or for me.'' Alas, for the young Undset, it held little.
		Undset's masterly depiction of Jenny's evolving emotions makes one realize that one is in the presence of an acute observer of the way lovers behave with, think about and react to each other.
		Adding to the bleakness of the novel's vision are Undset's highly calculated narrative choices: while leaping over Jenny's periods of happiness, she records the ensuing sorrow and remorse in merciless detail.
	www.brucebawer.com /undset.htm (1188 words)

	Sigrid Undset #32, Daughters of Norway, Palo Alto, CA
		All the novels Sigrid Undset wrote are still in print today in Norwegian, English, German and many other languages, attesting to the power of her medieval narrative.
		Sigrid Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but resided in Norway her entire adult life.
		Sigrid Undset Lodge meets at 9:30 AM on the third Saturday of most months at Grace Lutheran Church at the Corner of Waverly and Loma Verde in Palo Alto, California.
	www.daughtersofnorway.org /dnSigr32.html (427 words)

	Amazon.com: Kristin Lavransdatter I : The Wreath (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics): Books: Sigrid Undset,Tiina ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Undset was the first woman to win the Nobel prize for literature, and largely because of Archer's hesitation LOUSY translations, she's fallen into obscurity in the USA, at least.
		Sigrid Undset meticulously researched life in Norway during the Middle Ages, and she brings that world to life for us in her classic trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter.
		Undset was a convert to Catholicism, and this is a Catholic novel.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141180412?v=glance (2568 words)

	The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine
		Undset, a Norwegian author, is a national hero in her country.
		SIGRID UNDSET was a strange combination of duty and rebellion, passion and repression.
		Bawer wrote that "one suspects Undset had simply seen so much of reality, so early, that any hint of idealism enraged her." When Undset was forced to flee the Nazis, she left Norway just as her oldest son was killed at the front.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /pacificnw/2001/0909/people.html (1884 words)

	Books
		Yet Undset's complex views seem quite prescient in these post-feminist times; today few see a contradiction between affirming women as individuals in their own right and recognizing a particularly feminine longing for something more than the cold comfort of a career.
		In!deed, later in life Undset would describe religious truth as that which sets us "free so that the deterministic factors in life can no longer bind one in chains." Jenny is simply her description of a life so bound.
		The Unknown Sigrid Undset is rounded out by two short stories, "Thjodolf" and "Simonsen," as well as a selection of the author's letters to a friend.
	www.crisismagazine.com /december2001/book2.htm (769 words)

	Sigrid Undset Selskapet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Such a volume is certainly needed—Ida Packness’s Sigrid Undset bibliografi of 1963 is too old even to include the flush of scholarship that appeared around Undset’s centennial in 1982.
		The book may prove interesting to the casual browser or Undset fan, but students and scholars using it as a quick reference should be warned that it is not reliable.
		The first chapters cover American editions of Undset’s own works in English, grouped under the headings “Novels set in the Middle Ages” and “Contemporary Novels.” Organizational problems are already apparent:included in these categories are a film review, an untranslated Norwegian memoir, and volumes of essays.
	www.undset.no /harbison01.html (363 words)

	Sigrid Undset - Autobiography
		He took the name of Undset from a hamlet in which my grandmother had lived when she became a widow.
		Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) was forced by the Second World War and the Nazi invasion to leave her native Norway.
		Sigrid Undset is the author of the autobiographical volumes, Etapper (1929 and 1933) [Stages on the Road] and Elleve aar (1934) [The Longest Years].
	nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1928/undset-autobio.html (899 words)

	Kristin Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset) - book review
		And it is certainly not light reading, with its share of illness and plague, sudden and unexpected episodes of violence, death, and other human tragedies.
		Among other things it encompasses the complexities of kinship ties and family relationships, the pitfalls of reputation and status in tightly knit rural communities (and briefly of the high politics of Sweden and Norway), and the variety of religious beliefs and practices.
		Undset handles the changes in pacing needed in a novel covering half a century, convincingly connecting events and depicting changes over a lifetime.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Kristin_Lavransdatter.html (264 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Reading Sigrid Undset Today
		This article not only offers an examination of the relationship between man and woman, but their relationship with God, as found in the writings of Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset.
		Undset's two powerful novels, translated into 17 languages shortly after their original publication, have remained in print in English since 1925 (for the trilogy Kristin) and 1930 (for the terralogy The Master).
		Vigdis herself pays a terrible price for exacting her vengeance — dying alone without the presence of her only child or, more importantly, the comfort and support of dying in the faith.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?RecNum=5734 (2389 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Jenny by Sigrid Undset
		Undset’s portrayal of a woman struggling toward independence and fulfillment is written with an unflinching, clear-eyed honesty that renders her story as compelling today as it was nearly a century ago.
		Most famous for her later, historical fiction set in Catholic, medieval Scandinavia, Undset stands revealed with Jenny, her first major novel, as an unsparing, compassionate, magnificent realist, the creator of works that are at once thoroughly modern and of enduring interest.
		SIGRID UNDSET won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781586420505 (283 words)

	Sigrid Undset \| History \| Norway \| NORGE.RU
		Both in this and in the four-volume historical novel Olav Audunsson (1925–27; The Master of Hestviken), religious problems are prominent and reflect the author's preoccupation with such matters.
		Undset was converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1924, and in her later novels, in which she returned to contemporary themes, her new religion continues to play an important role.
		During the Nazi occupation of Norway, she fled the country and spent the remainder of the war years in the United States, lecturing and writing on behalf of her war-torn country and its government-in-exile.
	www.norge.ru /eng/history/sigrid_undset.html (287 words)

	Sigrid Undset -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		When Germany invaded Norway in 1940, the author Sigrid Undset fled and began writing and lecturing on behalf of her war-torn country.
		Along with Knut Hamsun and Sigrid Undset, novelist Olav Duun was one of the outstanding names in 20th-century Norwegian fiction.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9074237 (563 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sigrid Undset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sigrid Undset photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 27, 1927 From the collection of the Library of Congress and in the public domain: http://memory.
		Modernism is a cultural movement that generally includes progressive art and architecture, music and literature which emerged in the decades before 1914, as artists rebelled against late 19th century academic and historicist traditions.
		The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to an American author.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sigrid-Undset (1221 words)

	Sigrid Undset
		Undset converted to Catholicism in 1925, and her next historical novel, the tetralogy The Master of Hestviken (1925-27; Eng.
		From the 1930s on, she dealt with more contemporary issues, expressing in her novels a concern for religious and racial tolerance.
		An early and forceful critic of Nazism, Undset fled to Sweden and then to the United States after the German invasion of Norway in 1940.
	www.geocities.com /dotgames/nor/si.html (365 words)

	Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The relationship and the battles between Kristen and her parents and her conscience and the Catholic church and her desires and what's "right" is outstandingly developed by Undset.
		I thought that really it was nothing more than a period romance but the underlying themes and ideas are all played out perfectly.
		Also, Undset is the daughter of a scholar of medieval Norway; the "period" aspect is authentic.
	homepage.mac.com /bekker2/iblog/B1321052184/C972116231/E1931404637 (142 words)

	Antqiues & Collectables Ida Elisabeth by Sigrid Undset 1st ed. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ida Elisabeth is one of Undset's strong and capable characters, mated to a weakling who never reaches maturity in a spiritual sense.
		After she has won her freedom, and just as a new life of happiness is opening before her, the claim of the past reasserts itself and is not to be denied.
		It is perhaps Undset's greatest achievement to have proved so convincingly, by the living testimony of her creation, a thesis which many moderns, and not only the lighter-minded, imagine they have consigned to the lumber-room of the past.
	yesterdaysthings.zoovy.com /product/C1125 (178 words)

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