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Thank you to Mary Porter for recommending the audible version. Through that I realized my translation was super difficult to understand and was finally able to make my way through this epic book. I’ll be working on the next 2 parts of the trilogy in 2023. Penguin classic is a great translation I had first vintage translation I believe which was much harder to get through.
Singrid Undset is a masterful writer. The way she draws you in to the emotions that Kristin is feeling is amazing. I feel the passion and then the guilt and weight of the sin. This is not a feel good book by any measure. But, it is a worthwhile read. I cannot read the rest of their series fast enough. I’m waiting for the consequences and hopefully the redemption of the Kristin and her husband.
Still so much to ponder. On I read to #2.
“There is no one, Kristin, who does not love and fear God. But it’s because our hearts are divided between love for God and fear of the Devil, and love for this world and this flesh, that we are miserable in life and death. For if a man knew no yearning for God and God’s being, then he would thrive in Hell, and we alone would not understand that he had found his heart’s desire. Then the fire would not burn him if he did not long for coolness, and he would ...more
“There is no one, Kristin, who does not love and fear God. But it’s because our hearts are divided between love for God and fear of the Devil, and love for this world and this flesh, that we are miserable in life and death. For if a man knew no yearning for God and God’s being, then he would thrive in Hell, and we alone would not understand that he had found his heart’s desire. Then the fire would not burn him if he did not long for coolness, and he would ...more
I cannot wait to continue on with the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy. Sigrid's writing is so beautiful in this book! We follow the main character, Kristin, in 14th century Norway as she is coming of age. She finds herself betrothed to a young man that she does not have romantic feelings for. She meets an older man, Erlend, plagued by scandal, and falls in love. Their love story seems to be ill-fated from the start. Catholicism had recently made its way into Norway around this century, so the book
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