
The fourth and final volume in the Nobel Prize-winning writer's epic of one man's fateful life in medieval Norway

Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, The Son Avenger suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of Olav the Bad, Undset...










"The Son Avenger" is the powerful concluding volume of Sigrid Undset's monumental medieval saga, "The Master of Hestviken". Set in thirteenth-century Norway, this work brings the life of Olav Audunss , n to its dramatic and spiritual climax. Having lived a life shadowed by...

"The Son Avenger" is the powerful concluding volume of Sigrid Undset's monumental medieval saga, "The Master of Hestviken". Set in thirteenth-century Norway, this work brings the life of Olav Audunss , n to its dramatic and spiritual climax. Having lived a life shadowed by...
