Sigrid Undset - Works

Works

  • Gunnar's Daughter is a brief novel set in the Saga Age. This was Undset's first historical novel, published in 1909.
  • Gunnar's Daughter, ISBN 0-14-118020-X
  • The Master of Hestviken series is of four volumes, which are listed in order below. Depending on the version, each volume could be of itself, or two volumes may be combined into one book. The latter tends to result from older printings.
  • The Axe: The Master of Hestviken, ISBN 0-679-75273-0
  • The Snake Pit: The Master of Hestviken, ISBN 0-679-75554-3
  • In the Wilderness: The Master of Hestviken, ISBN 0-679-75553-5
  • The Son Avenger: The Master of Hestviken, ISBN 0-679-75552-7
  • Kristin Lavransdatter is a trilogy of three volumes. These are listed in order as well. Written during 1920-22. In 1995 the first volume was the basis for a commercial film, Kristin Lavransdatter, directed by Liv Ullman.
  • Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath. ISBN 0-14-118041-2
  • Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wife, ISBN 0-14-118128-1
  • Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross, ISBN 0-14-118235-0
  • Jenny was written in 1911. It is a story of a Norwegian painter who travels to Rome for inspiration. How things turn out, she had not anticipated.
  • Jenny, ISBN 1-58642-050-X
  • The Unknown Sigrid Undset, a collection of Undset's early existentialist works, including Tiina Nunnally's new translation of Jenny was assembled by Tim Page for Steerforth Press and published in 2001.
  • Men, Women and Places, a collection of critical essays, including 'Blasphemy', 'D. H. Lawrence', 'The Strongest Power', and 'Glastonbury'. Tr. Arthur G Chater, Cassel & Co., London. 1939.
  • Happy Times in Norway, a memoir of her children's life in that country before the Nazi occupation, features a particularly moving and powerful preface about the simplicity and hardiness of Norway and its people, with a vow that it will return thus after the evil of Nazism is "swept clean." New York; Alfred A. Knopf. 1942. ISBN 978-0-313-21267-3
  • Saga of Saints, ISBN 0-8369-0959-3; ISBN 978-0-8369-0959-3. The coming of Christianity.--St. Sunniva and the Seljemen.--St. Olav, Norway's king to all eternity.--St. Hallvard.--St. Magnus, earl of the Orkney islands.--St. Eystein, archbishop of Nidaros.--St. Thorfinn, bishop of Hamar.--Father Karl Schilling, Barnabite. Chapter of this book also published as "A Priest From Norway, The Venerable Karl M. Schilling, CRSP" by the Barnabite Fathers through the North American Voice of Fatima, Youngstown NY, July 1976.

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