![]() Her father then gets her engaged to a young man she does not want to marry, but she agrees to spend time at the convent while awaiting her marriage. She is quick to fall in love, first falling for a farmhand who is later killed. They’ve lost infant sons and their youngest daughter, so Kristin is all they have. While the mother is reclusive and depressed, Lavrans is a successful and popular farmer and close to young Kristin. This is 14th-century Norway and Kristin is the daughter of Lavrans and Rangfrid. Instead, her life goes on and she seems to learn nothing from the damage she leaves in her wake. ![]() In fact, she is quite unlikable but with none of the redeeming qualities we may find in other failed people. ![]() ![]() In Sigrid Undset’s first volume of the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, we find a young heroine who grows up to be so self-centered she is hard to like. ![]()
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