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Rosemary
Oct 31, 2017 rated it really liked it
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An epic-length historical tale of the life of a Norwegian woman in medieval times, from early childhood through marriage and the birth of - is it 9 children altogether? I lost count - to what was considered old age at that time (almost 50).

This translation is easy to read, and the story is not that challenging except for being long and having a lot of names. People can pop up hundreds of pages later when you've forgotten who they are. Like the Russians they mostly used first name + patronymic, w
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