A review by edustoryramos24
Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset

5.0

A blockbuster surprise, considering most early Scandinavian Nobels are, to put it kindly, critically dated. Written in 1909 when the author was 27, Gunnar´s Daughter suprisingly eschews Romantic historical novel conventions to tell a story of love, hate, regret and revenge loosely based in later Middle Age Icelandic sagas in a style evocative of those while remaining contemporary. Unless you´re an expert, this is much more fascinating to read than, say, Thomas Mallory´s Morte d´Arthur. And in the last few chapters I had trouble keepoing my Adam´s apple steady.