I've just started the lush, sweeping epic "Kristin Lavransdatter" by Sigfrid Unset, on @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 's recommendation, and it's so evocative of a time and place immeasurably distant that I'm enraptured by Medieval Norway and its magics - ThreadSky

swordsjew.bsky.social • 204 days ago

I've just started the lush, sweeping epic "Kristin Lavransdatter" by Sigfrid Unset, on @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 's recommendation, and it's so evocative of a time and place immeasurably distant that I'm enraptured by Medieval Norway and its magics

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vintagekayaker.bsky.social•203 days ago

Oh, I liked that series so much.

pdnell.bsky.social•204 days ago

It's so good! (I read it the summer before college, my mother the Melville maven recommended it.)

slackermom66.bsky.social•204 days ago

I loved this book more than I ever expected to.

zarilion.bsky.social•204 days ago

Great book. But as a Norwegian I have to correct you. Her name was Sigrid Undset. I live close to Undset, where her father came from.

valterma.bsky.social•204 days ago

This is one of my favorite series. I’ve had it for years (my mother recommended it). You’ll love it. It stays with you.

sammarlowe.bsky.social•204 days ago

I read it because someone on the other place recommended it a few years ago. It is So Good 😊

gardentraveler.bsky.social•204 days ago

Wow. Hadn’t thought about it in years. Read it in high school or early college. Loved it. Might have to reread.

lizbethann.bsky.social•204 days ago

Oooh! I have this on my bookshelf! Maybe this is where I need to go, to duck out of this reality for a while. Thank you.

shoecityrefugee.bsky.social•204 days ago

I just read it this year. It's not easy, but it's worth the effort.

jessesword.com•204 days ago

So great. Nobel-Prize great, in fact.

alexis-madrigal.bsky.social•204 days ago

Oooohhh… I had this happen with Hild and post-Roman England

lisairontongue.bsky.social•204 days ago

You're reading / listening to Tiina Nunnely's translation, I hope.

lisairontongue.bsky.social•204 days ago

It's a fantastic book.

dtmainz.bsky.social•204 days ago

I’ve been meaning to give this book another shot soon. Got 150 pages in or so years, liked it, but Got Busy. (Similar story for The Magic Mountain fwiw.)

janellematz.bsky.social•204 days ago

I also have decided it is written as if it were spoken, stories told with the significant digressions and explanations.

janellematz.bsky.social•204 days ago

Omg omg - my favorite. Read three times at relevant times in my life. I’ll be dying when I read it the fourth time.

anniehg.bsky.social•204 days ago

Thank you! Just found it on Audible - 47 hours, all for 1 credit. That will last me a couple of weeks, at least, of housecleaning and dog walking. So exciting!

electrodriver8.bsky.social•203 days ago

It really is great. The 14th century brought to life.

kml79.bsky.social•204 days ago

I was named after this book 🩷🩷

islandofreil.bsky.social•204 days ago

I picked that up when I was much younger and couldn't get into it. I should try it again.

swordsjew.bsky.social•204 days ago

It's very slow and quiet at first! It reminds me of another Nordic classic -- the heartbreaking and magnificent Independent People

mskyleh.bsky.social•204 days ago

It’s my “read it when I want to fall asleep” book. It’s slow!

furmarkhill.bsky.social•204 days ago

Such a fantastic book!

katyaandyourdad.bsky.social•204 days ago

Oh I have this, I'll move it up the list, thx 😃

angiereads1.bsky.social•204 days ago

I have heard so many good things about this masterpiece! #BookSky 📚💙

docdanpgh.bsky.social•204 days ago

Just added to my Audible Wish List. Thanks!

pgrace123.bsky.social•204 days ago

Long been my favorite book!!!

joycereynoldsward.bsky.social•204 days ago

I'm saving that one for after cataract surgery next week...for me it's a reread but it has been a while.

russ1950.bsky.social•204 days ago

Great trilogy

tedbrassfield.bsky.social•204 days ago

The new translation is good, the older one... Was a slog.

Enjoy!

athomasson11.bsky.social•204 days ago

I’m reading The Wreathe for the second time! I’m going to finish the trilogy this time around. I thought I was the only person who ever read it.

evavictorine.bsky.social•204 days ago

Magical choice, and excellent for winter reading.

radinje.bsky.social•204 days ago

Have you read the Three Cities trilogy by Sholem Asch? Its another on myliet of undervalued trologies list.

radinje.bsky.social•204 days ago

I love this series and no one ever knows what im talking about!

sarosecav.bsky.social•204 days ago

My mother insisted I read this as a teenager and then wanted me to re-read it as a mother and then as a crone, I'm almost out of time for the second re-read (kiddo goes off to college next year) - thanks for the reminder!

@grammyrose.bsky.social

anhill.bsky.social•204 days ago

My mother did too. She bought me the book when I was in 6th grade and again when I had my daughter

sarosecav.bsky.social•204 days ago

I love this!

sielulintu.bsky.social•204 days ago

It was one of my mother's favorite books. I should really get around to reading it.

inquisitorlily.bsky.social•204 days ago

Yay!

profshoff.bsky.social•204 days ago

Ooo, this is a good one!

bawalker.bsky.social•204 days ago

It is a magnificent book! Felt like time travel to me as I was reading it!

grimisham.bsky.social•204 days ago

This one was on a list of favorite fictions of William T Vollman I read years ago and I meant to read it but forgot so maybe this is the reminder I need.

zem42.bsky.social•204 days ago

I read that one a couple of years ago on @annetheriault.bsky.social 's recommendation! lush and evocative sums it up nicely.

annetheriault.bsky.social•204 days ago

Oh man I loved that book so much. Almost as much as I hated her terrible husband

rachelfm.bsky.social•204 days ago

Truly one of the great pleasures of my reading life. Bonus: I now refer to my kids as “troll rabble” when warranted.

klilleskov.bsky.social•204 days ago

My dad’s 1947 copy of Volume 2. I haven’t read it but I guess I’ll get Volume 1 from the library and give it a go and if I like it, it would be fun to read this. He was of Norwegian descent and I’m half and I’ve always been curious about this book.