Alone she raises the child conceived in violence, repeatedly defending her autonomy in a world governed by men.
A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar's Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published Gunnar's Daughter, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country's history, the Saga Age.
The first historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter
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