Author

Sigrid Undset

Short biography: Sigrid Undset in Great Lives

About Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset (1882-1949), Norwegian novelist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928 chiefly for her medieval novels.

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The Bridal Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter I)

1920 (English 1923) · Early 20th Century · Novel

The Bridal Wreath, published in Norwegian in 1920 as Kransen, is the first volume of Sigrid Undset's trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway. This text is the 1923 English translation by Charles Archer and J. S. Scott.