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PeterO111 • 15 yr. ago. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar’s Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is casually raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity. Alone she raises the child conceived in ...
30 de abr. de 1998 · The first historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter. A Penguin Classic . More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published Gunnar's Daughter, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country's history, the Saga Age.
- Arthur Chater, Sherrill Harbison, Sigrid Undset
10 de may. de 2012 · A ten-foot-tall panel illustrating the 1909 Norwegian novel by Sigrid Undset. Now largely forgotten, Undset won the Nobel Prize in 1928. I think her books deserve more attention. Gunnar’s Daughter was published a century ago but takes place in the Middle Ages and has all the great dark and bizarre appeal of Icelandic legend recycled […]
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But unlike most of the Viking-inspired art of its period, Gunnar's Daughter is not a historical romance. It is a skillful conversation between two historical moments about questions as troublesome in Undset's own time—and in ours—as they were in the Saga Age: rape and revenge, civil and domestic violence, troubled marriages, and children made victims of their parents' problems.
Gunnar's Daughter is a surprisingly fresh tale of love in medieval Scandanavia, written by the Nobel Prize winning Norwegian author, Sigrid Undset. This new translation is fast-paced and gripping, guaranteed to keep a modern reader turning the pages to the end, which will be a surprise. I could not put it down.
