Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol. 3: The Cross by Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undse'ts Nobel-Prize winning trilogy, set in thirteenth and fourteenth century Norway. The Cross finds Kristin Lavrandatter returning with her husband, Erlend, and their sons to her childhood home, Jørundgaard. As the boys grow older, Kristin is increasingly worried about their prospects, and she and Erlend become estranged. The most devastating and emotional volume in the trilogy, The Cross chronicles the trials and losses Kristin must bear, and how she finds the strength to endure them.

"No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius.... One of the finest minds in European literature." -- New York Herald Tribune

Softcover, 431 pp.

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