Gunnar's Daughter is a short novel written by Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.-Biography:Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, she converted to Catholicism and became a lay Dominican...

 (1882-1949), published in 1909. This was Undset's first historical novel, set in the 10th and 11th centuries in Norway and Iceland.

The novel follows the tragic romance between the proud Vigdis Gunnarsdatter and the Icelandic Viga-Ljot. The major themes are rape, revenge, social codes, marriage, and children bearing the consequences of their parents' acts.

Availability

Gunnar's Daughter is available in paperback under ISBN 014118020X (New York: Penguin Classics, 1998).

Characters in Gunnar's Daughter

• Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, the protagonist