This is a marvelous tale, gripping from beginning to end. The last volume is so well named, The Cross, moves the action back to Kristin’s estate of Jorundgaard and the trials of their later lives all the way up to the time of the plague coming to Norway. There is an enormous change in their lives because of Erlend’s deep involvement in Norwegian politics, his emprisonment and being stripped of his wealth and property. The second volume moves us from her father’s farm/estate of Jorundgaard to Erlend’s gigantic estate of Husaby in western Norway, and the birth of 7 of their children. The first volume follows Kristin from her days of young childhood, through an engagement, spell in a convent, a tempestuous affair and eventually marriage to Erlend. While the central character of the novel is Kristin Lavransdatter, others come to the fore as important characters, especially her parents, her husband Erlend and her once-fiance, Simon and their families as well.Īuthor Sigrid Undset divided this epic into three separate novels and that seems to work quite well to describe the central action. This magnificent epic is set in Norway in the fourteenth century. Books have proudly republished this new edition of The Mistress of Husaby, with an introductory excerpt from Alrik Gustafrom's Six Scandinavian Novelists.Book review - By Sigrid Undset – KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER Reviews of Nobel Prize winner Originally published in 1921, the second installment of the Kristin Lavransdatter series echoes sentiments of life in the 21st century and tugs at the reader's heartstrings.Ī must-read for fans of the first Kristin Lavransdatter book, Read & Co. Kristin realises that married life is not all she had hoped and turns her attentions away from her husband, Erlend, and towards her faith and God.Īmidst pilgrimages, adultery and plots to overthrow the king, The Mistress of Husaby deepens our understanding of Kristin as we continue to follow her journey through her early adulthood.
Opening with Kristin's arrival at her new home, Husaby, Sigrid Undset's novel explores the tribulations of a new family life against the stunning backdrop of 14th-century Norway. The second volume in the classic Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, The Mistress of Husaby continues the story of Kristin's eventful life as she adjusts to newly married life and the troubles of motherhood in medieval Norway.
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