Vows) (novel)ġ925 Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken (The Snake Pit) later: (OlavAudunssøn. Look to Norway An affectionate account of a national heroġ907 Fru Marta Oulie (Marta Oulie) (novel)ġ909 Fortællingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis (Gunnar’s Daughter) (novel)ġ915 Fortellinger om Kong Artur og ridderne av Det runde bord, retelling of Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthurġ917 Splinten av troldspeilet (contains Fru Hjelde (Images in a Mirror (stories)ġ920 Sankt Halvards liv, død og jærtegn, fortellingġ920–22 Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter) (novel trilogy)ġ920 Kransen (The Wreath later The Garland)ġ921 Husfrue (The Mistress of Husaby’later: The Wife)ġ925 Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken (The Axe) later: (OlavAudunssøn. She won the Nobel Prize in 1928.Īfter the German invasion, she fled to neutral Sweden and then to the United States, returning at the end of the war. She continued writing both contemporary and historical books, as well as her memoirs. The Vows) and the subsequent volumes in the four-part book. She now started work on her best-known work, the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, followed by Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken (OlavAudunssøn 1. The couple divorced and she and her children stayed in Lillehammer. After he was divorced, the couple married, spending time in London and Rome.Īfter World War I, she moved to Lillehammer. There she met the Norwegian painter Anders Castus Svarstad who was married. She quit her job and travelled around Europe, spending nine months in Rome. She went on to write books set in contemporary Oslo. It created something of a stir, dealing with adultery. She then wrote a shorter, contemporary novel which was at first turned down and then accepted. She finished it when she was twenty-two but it was turned down for publication. She started writing a historical novel when she was sixteen. While employed at office work, Undset wrote and studied. She took a secretarial course and worked for an engineering company for ten years. Her father died when she was eleven, meaning the family could not afford to send her to university. The family moved to Norway when she was two.

Sigrid Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark in 1882.

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