![]() ![]() Beginning in 1925 she published the four-volume Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken (translated into English under the title The Master of Hestviken ), also set in the Middle Ages. Kransen ( The Wreath ) was followed by Husfrue ( The Wife ) in 1921 and Korset ( The Cross ) in 1922. In 1920 Undset published the first volume of Kristin Lavransdatter, the medieval trilogy that would become her most famous work. More novels and stories followed, including Jenny (1911, first translated 1920), Fattige skjæbner ( Fates of the Poor, 1912), Vaaren ( Spring, 1914), Splinten av troldspeilet (translated in part as Images in a Mirror, 1917), and De kloge jomfruer ( The Wise Virgins, 1918). The following year she published her first work set in the Middle Ages, Fortællingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis (later translated into English under the title Gunnar’s Daughter and now available in Penguin Classics). Marta Oulie ) in 1907 and her second book, Den lykkelige alder ( The Happy Age ), in 1908. She published her first novel, Fru Marta Oulie ( Mrs. SIGRID UNDSET was born in Denmark in 1882, the eldest daughter of a Norwegian father and a Danish mother, and moved with her family to Oslo two years later. ![]()
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