Where LOTR was preparation for battle with Sauron's forces, Kristin Lavransdatter was an intimate look into a Norwegian community. The only thing that comes to mind immediately is the length of the two. A strange comparison, you say? Well I agree with you. Her Kristin Lavransdatter books are unquestionably works of massive scope on par with JRR Tolkien's Lord Of the Rings. She also won a Nobel Prize for her work, so there is that. Well, well, well, Miss Undset has made it onto my 10-star list. It is as great and as rich, as simple and as profound, as such a story should be." "This trilogy is the first great story founded upon the normal events of a normal woman's existence. One of the finest minds in European literature."
"No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius. It is also very probably the noblest work of fiction ever to have been inspired by the Catholic art of life." - Commonweal than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. "Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously.
"As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." - Montreal Star Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J.
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