Kristin Lavransdatter

by Sigrid Undset

Erlend Nikulaussøn of Husaby—now

Bentein Prestesøn, as they called him—Sira Eirik’s grandson.

Simon Andressøn

Ingebjørg Filippusdatter,

Einar Einarssøn of Aganæs—but

“Erlend Nikulaussøn

“We will stand by what we swore to each other last night, Erlend—if you feel as I do.”

Brynhild Fluga.”

Eline Ormsdatter.

Ulf Haldorssøn, Erlend’s personal servant.

Audfinna Andunsdatter,

Now Kristin realized how hideous sin was.

Erling Vidkunssøn

Two weeks later he had divided up his possessions among his kinsmen and the Church and donned the robes of a friar.

Did he become friar?

The biggest news in the letter was that Lavrans had betrothed Ramborg to Simon Andressøn of Formo.

Kirstins Simon

And how was Naakkve, still a child, coping with the fact that now nothing in his life would be the way that she and he and everyone else had imagined it would be?

This is a key element to the story. We cannot forsee how our story wi unfold. Lavrens had a strong sense of how K's life would unold with Erland

Or they were supposed to use their teeth to dig a ring out of a flour bin.

That is a hilarious game

to live with a woman he loves when she is not his wife or his kinswoman by blood.

Simon loves Kirstin

Life on this earth was irredeemably tainted by strife; in this world, wherever people mingled, producing new descendants, allowing themselves to be drawn together by physical love and loving their own flesh, sorrows of the heart and broken expectations were bound to occur as surely as the frost appears in the autumn.

And yet she had loved it so, rejoicing over it, with both the bad and the good, so that there was not a single day she would have given back to God without lament or a single sorrow she would have relinquished without regret.