![]() They have been exiled from their estate at Husaby because of Erlend’s ill-considered political actions, and now they are all suffering the consequences. The Cross is a fitting conclusion to this immensely moving and powerful story.Īs the third volume begins, Kristin is living in her childhood home with her husband, Erlend, and her seven sons. ![]() In this final volume of Sigrid Undset’s Nobel Prize-winning novel, Kristin Lavransdatter, all the theological implications of the cross find their way into the narrative in a sweetly mystical strain, along with threads from the earlier parts of the story, but without being heavy-handed. ![]() ![]() In Christian theology, the cross means pain, suffering, and death, but it also represents what comes beyond that, at the resurrection: grace, redemption, love, and life. ![]()
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