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* AltarTheSpeed: Kristin keeps her wedding date unchanged [[spoiler: despite her hidden pregnancy. She knows everybody will be counting backward on their fingers and Erlend will look bad because of it]].
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* AltarTheSpeed: Subverted. Kristin keeps her wedding date unchanged [[spoiler: despite her hidden pregnancy. She knows everybody will be counting backward on their fingers and Erlend will look bad because of it]].
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* AltarTheSpeed: Kristin keeps her wedding date unchanged [[spoiler: despite her hidden pregnancy. She knows everybody will be counting backward on their fingers and Erlend will look bad because of it]].
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* DinnerAndAShow: The first time Erlend and Kristin entertain Munan Baardson and his family, Munan becomes drunk at dinner and insults and harasses the other guests. Kristin is appalled, but Munan's wife continues eating supper as if nothing strange is going on.
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* SwissCheeseSecurity: The convent Kristin is sent to has lax enough security that she's able to slip away several times to be alone with Erlend without getting caught.
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* GreaterNeedThanMine: When Lavrans and Ulvhild are injured at the same time, Lavrans insists they treat her first.
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* Fainting: Kristin faints at a party when she sees Erlend for the first time after many weeks of longing--in front of her fiance and his entire family.
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* CoolOldLady: Aashild Gautesdatter, who is a skilled healer, beautiful even in her old age, married to a much younger man, and lived at court when she was a young girl. When she is accused of witchcraft, the parish priest even defends her, saying that peasants are all to quick to accuse a woman of witchcraft if she's a little smarter than her neighbors.
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* TheOldGods Kristin sacrifizes to them when Simon's son is ill.
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* TheOldGods Kristin sacrifizes to them when Simon's son is ill.
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* AManIsAlwaysEager Averted with Lavrans Bjorgulfsson.
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* BastardBoyfriend: Erlend exhibits this behavior to Kristin. Played straight in the first book, where Kristin falls in love with Erlend, breaks her engagement with her NiceGuy fiance, and defies the will of her father to be with him, all despite his shady past and his none-too-kind treatment of her. Deconstructed in the two later books, set after Erlend and Kristin's marriage, where she has to live with the painful consequences of her decision, all in a highly patriarchial world that offers little support for women.
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* BastardBoyfriend: Erlend exhibits this behavior to Kristin. Played straight in the first book, where Kristin falls in love with Erlend, breaks her engagement with her NiceGuy fiance, and defies the will of her father to be with him, all despite his shady past and his none-too-kind treatment of her. Deconstructed in the two later books, set after Erlend and Kristin's marriage, where she has to live with the painful consequences of her decision, all in a highly patriarchial world that offers little support for women.women.
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* TheFairFolk Kristin meets the ''huldra'' as a child.
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* ThrownDownAWell: During the Black Death, some desperate townspeople attempt a sacrifice to the pagan goddess Hel by throwing the child of a local prostitute into a well
* ValuesDissonance: When Erlend strikes Kristin after an argument, the episode is portrayed as a bad thing for Erlend to have done...not because male-on-female violence is inherently wrong, but because Kristin comes from well-born people, and as such, is above that kind of treatment. A peasant could strike his peasant wife and nobody think twice about it.
* ValuesDissonance: When Erlend strikes Kristin after an argument, the episode is portrayed as a bad thing for Erlend to have done...not because male-on-female violence is inherently wrong, but because Kristin comes from well-born people, and as such, is above that kind of treatment. A peasant could strike his peasant wife and nobody think twice about it.
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* ThrownDownAWell: During the Black Death, some desperate townspeople attempt a sacrifice to the pagan goddess Hel by throwing the child of a local prostitute into down a well
*ValuesDissonance: When Erlend strikes TheOldGods Kristin after an argument, the episode sacrifizes to them when Simon's son is portrayed as a bad thing for Erlend to have done...not because male-on-female violence is inherently wrong, but because Kristin comes from well-born people, and as such, is above that kind of treatment. A peasant could strike his peasant wife and nobody think twice about it.ill.
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Sigrid Undset won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1928 for this book.
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* StayWithMeUntilIDie: [[spoiler: Simon begs Kristin to sit with him while he's dying so he can confess his undying love to her]]
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Brynhild Fluga
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Naakve romances most of the young maidens in his parish, then a traveling knight comes through Sil and wants HIM.
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Naakve romances most of the young maidens in his parish, then a traveling knight comes through Sil meets him and wants HIM.tries to convince him to become his "squire".
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Naakve romances most of the young maidens in his parish, then a traveling knight comes through Sil and wants HIM.
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* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Erlend continues to turn heads even after his daughter Margaret has married and borne a child.
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* ValuesDissonance: When Erlend strikes Kristin after an argument, the episode is portrayed as a bad thing for Erlend to have done...not because male-on-female violence is inherently wrong, but because Kristin comes from well-born people, and as such, is above that kind of treatment. A peasant could strike his peasant wife and nobody think twice about it.
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* SettleForSibling: Kristin leaves her bethrothed Simon for Erlend. Simon ends up marrying her little sister, but never really gets over Kristin.
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* BastardBoyfriend: Erlend exhibits this behavior to Kristin. Played straight in the first book, where Kristin falls in love with Erlend, breaks her engagement with her NiceGuy fiance, and defies the will of her father to be with him, all despite his shady past and his none-too-kind treatment of her. Deconstructed in the two later books, set after Erlend and Kristin's marriage, where she has to live with the painful consequences of her decision, all in a highly patriarchial world that offers little support for women.
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* Defictionalization: The Kristin Days are held every year on the first weekend of July at Jorundgard Middelaldersenter in Norway where the main attraction is a theater production of the book(s) in addition to lectures, fairs and other Kristin-themed activities.
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* ChasteHero: Despite having fathered six children with his wife, Lavrans can do without sex quite nicely, and genuinely doesn't understand why everybody else around him seems to want it so much.
* HairOfGold: Kristin starts out like this. People remark on her blond hair, and she is sweet, innocent, and beloved in her neighborhood. Until she meets Erlend...
* HairOfGold: Kristin starts out like this. People remark on her blond hair, and she is sweet, innocent, and beloved in her neighborhood. Until she meets Erlend...
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* ScreamingBirth: Many, many, many pages are devoted to the birth of Naakve. There is screaming on every page.
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Sigrid Undset won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1928 for this book.
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*ArrangedMarriage: Lavrans Bjorgulfsson and Ragnfrid Ivarsdatter (Kristin's parents)
*IllGirl: Ulvhild Lavransdatter
*SwordPlant: Subverted. Simon Andresson is sitting on a wooden bench, talking to his fiancé and fiddling with his dagger. He stabs the bench with the dagger and only winds up bending the point so badly it won’t go back in its sheath.
*YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: The Archer Translation from the 1920's for English-speaking audiences. It is similar to the way the King James Version of the Bible is written, but even more so. A new translation by Tiina Nunnally was released in 2005 which is closer to English spoken today.
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''Kristin Lavransdatter'' is a trilogy of historical novels written by Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset. The individual novels are ''Kransen'' (The Wreath), first published in 1920, ''Husfrue'' (The Wife), published in 1921, and ''Korset'' (The Cross), published in 1922. The cycle follows the life of Kristin Lavransdatter, a fictitious Norwegian woman living in the 14th century.
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