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Volume 2: 'The Mistress of Husaby' concerns her married life with Erlend and their children.

'The Wreath' is followed by two more novels that continue the story of Kristin Lavransdatter. The relationship between Kristin's parents is particularly stirring and thought-provoking, offering a striking contrast with Kristin's own romantic experiences. The narrator also reveals the lives of those around Kristin, including her parents, her beloved Erlend, a kindly monk named Brother Edvin who counsels Kristin, and Fru Aashild, a wise woman and Erlend's aunt, who gives Kristin advice on both spiritual and day-to-day life, and how she can find peace for herself. Undset's grasp of human psychology, and the exploration of Kristin's emotional and intellectual development is fascinating. Along the way, Kristin must traverse the confusing realms of love and religion, learn to accept responsibility for her decisions, and face the consequences of her actions. We follow the spirited and headstrong Kristin through her childhood and young adulthood, up to her romance with and marriage to Erlend Nikulausson of Husaby. It is as great and as rich, as simple and as profound, as such a story should be.The first book in Sigrid Undset's trilogy recounting the life of Kristin Lavransdatter is an insightful coming-of-age story set in Norway during the Middle Ages. "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.

"The finest historical novel our 20th century has yet produced indeed it dwarfs most of the fiction of any kind that Europe has produced in the last twenty years."