The Norwegian Chesterton: A Brief Introduction to Sigrid Undset

2024 was a year of anniversaries for 1928 Nobel Prize winner and Catholic convert, Sigrid Undset. The Feast of All Saints marked the centenary of her reception into the Catholic Church, while June 10 was the seventy-fifth anniversary of her death in 1949. 2025 marks another centenary: the first volume of her tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken (titled Olav Audunssøn in Tiina Nunnaly’s new translations). Perhaps these anniversaries will spark interest in, as a Catholic Herald article calls her, “the greatest Catholic writer you’ve never heard of.”