A review by jmtinsd_58
Kristin Lavransdatter, II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset

5.0

I loved this book. It is not the happy ever after but it is the real picture of the marriage of two sinners. You see the consequence of the recklessness of their tempestuous courtship, the struggle to forgive each other and to be forgiven by a loving God. You see the destruction wreaked by a root of bitterness and the redemption offered through the bearing and loving of one’s children. There is so much love - for children, for God, for parents, for siblings, for spouses. And so much heartbreak. Through it all the author has the reader in the midst of life in medieval Norway. Masterful!