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Nunnally, whose lauded translation of the epic Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy in the 1990s helped to revive widespread interest in Nobel Prize—winning Norwegian author Undset (1882–1949), translates the final installment in Undset's subsequent medieval Olav Audunssøn tetralogy. Undset's own favorite among her works, this weighty saga transports readers to 13th-century Norway, where clannish Old Norse traditions vie with newly ascendant church doctrines, nowhere more poignantly than in the lifelong moral struggles of the title character. Betrothed in his youth to his adoptive sister Ingunn in the first installment, Vows, Olav's fated and impetuously c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More