![]() Only she could remind men that in the beginning Adam was a medieval Norseman and Eden was the first Christendom.Īdam was standing next to Eve when she ate the forbidden fruit. Only Sigrid Undset could write this book. Only Eve could so accurately capture Adam’s cowardice, his courage, his Catholic heart. There is no such saying-but there should be. Perhaps the old saying is true: “Only a woman can really know the heart of a man.” If this Catholic convert and Norwegian Nobel Prize winning author isn’t a “suitable helper,” then I don’t know who is. God made Adam, and then he made Sigrid Undset. ![]() “Real men read novels.” You’ll make your morning offering and kiss your brown scapular, and then you’ll drive to the jobsite…with your tear-stained copy of Kristin Lavransdatter tucked somewhere between your toolbox and your Stanley thermos. “That’s right,” you’ll say, your voice husky from drinking mead with kinsmen after a long Alpine hunt. But you will sleep like a baby, and in the morning you will wake up with a bonfire in your heart. ![]() ![]() Kristin Lavransdatter will make you weep and shout and stay up way too late with eyes as big as saucers. ![]()
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