Sigrid Undset (1882 - 1949 Noble Laurate 1928
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The historical landscape
•Nostalgia for the past
•Making a national identity
•The Norse past as the national foundation
•Making a spiritual identity – the Catholic past as an ideal
•Mountains, rivers, fjords and forests rather than the cultivated landscape of Europe

Norwegian female author and Noble Laurate
•Strongly attached to the land
•Main authorship connected to the Norse past
•Converted to Catholisism
•Female emanicipation
•The fight against totalitarism (refugee from Norway during the Second World War •The fight against
racism and particularly the attrocities against the Jewish population of Europe

References (Selected titles translated to English)
•The Master of Hestviken series (1925 -1927) (Translated the Master of the Horsebay); The Snake
Pit: The Master of Hestviken, In the Wilderness: The Master of Hestviken and The Son Avenger: The
Master of Hestviken. •Kristin Lavransdatter (A triology) (1920 – 1922) (Translated Kristin the
daughter of Lavrans); Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath, Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wife and
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross.
•Catherine of Siena (re-published in 2009)

Sigrid Undsets home –Bjerkebæk ( a museum of the Noble Laurate)
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Sigrid Undset in later years – as a famous author
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