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I meant to post quotes/status updates here while I read, but I forgot. Catching up on belated posts now:9/01/2014 - "But it's not so good if you think something isn't right because you don't dare do it." (page 52)
9/01/2014 - "But the most extreme and oppressive fears seized her whenever she thought of Simon—the way he had picked her up and carried her off and spoken for her at home and acted as if she were his property. Her father and mother had yielded to him as if she already belonged more to him than to them." (page 91)
9/06/2014 - "Ah, young child, you probably think there's nothing else that entices in the world save sensual pleasure and wealth and power. I must tell you that these are small things that are found along the side of the road—but I, I have loved the roads themselves." (page 252)
9/10/2014 - "The pillars were furrowed like ancient trees, and into the woods the light seeped, colorful and as clear as song, through the stained-glass windows." (page 401)
9/11/2014 - "Property that is unlawfully won shall not be handed down to the third heir," said Lavrans Bjørgulfsøn. "Haven't you ever heard that before, Erlend?""Of course I've heard that!" Erlend laughed loudly. "But I've never seen it happen." (page 425)
9/15/2014 - "But you needn't worry, Erlend. I will not offend you again with my words, and from this day forward, I will never forget to speak to you as gently as if you were descended from thralls."
9/21/2014 - "And yet you cannot proceed with a change in the law before it has been enacted without exerting excessive force against the people—and from ancient times the people have had difficulty in accepting excessive force from their kings."
9/30/2014 - "But the drifting blue shadows on the hillsides, the fair-weather clouds billowing up over the mountain ridges and melting into the blue summer sky, the glitter of the Laag's water beyond the trees, the white glint of sunlight on all the leaves—these things she noticed more as silent sounds, audible only to her inner ear, rather than as visible images. With her wimple pulled forward over her brow, Kristin sat and listened to the play of light and shadow across the valley."
I'm reading this in its three separate parts. Here's my review for part 1. The Wreath https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
"A landmark among historical novels, Kristin Lavransdatter is part of the body of work that won Sigrid Undset the Nobel Prize in 1928...Sigrid Undset makes us understand Kristin's love for her sons and husband, the feeling of milk in her breasts, and the hard work of living in the fourteenth century..."
(E.B., p. 129)
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