The third volume in the Nobel Prize-winning writer's epic story of
medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset's fluid, natural style in
the first English translation in nearly a century In the early
fourteenth century, Norway is a kingdom in political turmoil,
struggling with opposing forces within its own borders and drawn
into strife with neighboring Sweden and Denmark. Bloody family
vendettas and conflicting loyalties sparked by the irrepressible
passion of a boy and his foster sister (also his betrothed) have
now set in motion a series of terrible consequences-with a legacy
of betrayal, murder, and disgrace that will echo down through the
generations. Crossroads, the third of Olav Audunsson's four
volumes, finds Olav heartbroken by loss and further estranged from
his son. To escape his grief, Olav leaves his home estate of
Hestviken and agrees to serve as captain on a small merchant ship
headed to London. There, separated from everything familiar to him,
Olav begins a visionary journey that will send him far into the
forest and deep into his soul. Questioning past decisions and
future plans, Olav must grapple with his own perceptions of love
and guilt, sin and penitence, vengeance and forgiveness. Set in a
time and place where royalty and religion vie for power, and
bloodlines and loyalties are law, Crossroads summons a powerful
picture of Northern life in medieval times, as the Swedish Academy
noted in awarding Sigrid Undset the Nobel Prize in 1928. Conveying
both the intimate drama and epic sweep of Olav's story as grief and
guilt drive him to ever more desperate action, Crossroads is a
moving and masterly re-creation of a vanished world tainted by
bloodshed and haunted by sin and retribution. As with Kristin
Lavransdatter, her earlier medieval epic, Undset immersed herself
in the legal, religious, and historical documents of the time while
writing Olav Audunsson to create astoundingly authentic and
compelling portraits of Norwegian life in the Middle Ages. And as
in her translation of Kristin Lavransdatter, Tiina Nunnally does
full justice to Undset's natural, fluid prose, in a style that
delicately and lyrically conveys the natural world, the complex
culture, and the fraught emotional territory against which Olav's
story inexorably unfolds.
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