"In her extensive work, an Iliad of the North, Sigrid Undset has resurrected in a new and visionary light the ideals which once guided our forefathers who built that community from which our Germanic culture derived. To an age in which it may be easier to acknowledge that the right to the greatest happiness is the duty of renunciation – to this age Sigrid Undset has shown the ideals of our forefathers: duty and faithfulness."
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Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Publisher Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company , Amsterdam, 1969.
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Sigrid Undset
1882 – 1949
(1882-1949) was a Norwegian writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
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