Vikings!
We are a hardy race, being independent booksellers, so of course we are interested in those Norse entrepreneurs who made Europe a lively place in the so-called Dark Ages.
One of the standard-setting writers about medieval Scandinavia was Nobel Prize-winning Sigrid Undset. I have assembled all her works that we carry on this page, even though they technically do not involve Viking culture and history (a few are even contemporary to Undset’s own time). Other than that, she needs no defense as one of the greatest of historical novelists.
Gunnar's Daughter
Gunnar's Daughter
Written in 1909, this swift and compelling tale of a female avenger from the Saga Age was Undset's first novel with a medieval setting. Unlike most of the Viking-inspired art of its period, it is not a historical romance but addresses questions as troublesome in Undset's own time--and in ours--as they were in the Saga Age: rape and revenge, civil and domestic violence.