Status Updates From The Master of Hestviken

“ You know well, Olav, that motherless and friendless you are not–no Christian man is that. You, as we all, have the mightiest brother in Christ, our Lord, and his mother is your mother–and with her, I trust, is she, your mother who bore you. I have always thought that the Lady Sancta Maria prays yet more to her Son for those children who must grow up motherless year below than for us others.”

Comments on the reasons for requiring a public marriage

It dawned on Olav the while that he who has once left the straight path of honor soon finds himself in broken ground, where he may be forced to many a crooked leap.

I’m hooked. Undset’s writing is just as captivating as I remembered.

Encore 600 pages mais c’est ok