![]() ![]() ![]() When the Christian Church began to speak and taught that God’s kingdom would come, it was in reality challenging people’s innermost convictions. The present was hard, and the future was dark and full of menace. Pre-Christian pagans – Greeks and Romans and Nordic peoples, or redskins and Asiatic tribes – have usually conceived of the Golden Age as having been some time in the past. I sent in a second draft, and they told me my prose was so good that they could go ahead and publish it without running it through the usual editorial processing. My first draft was returned for improvements, which is of course kind of a bummer, but we professionals soldier on. One could come away from watching it with the impression that Kristin and Erlend lived happily ever after, precisely not the point of the exercise.īut Sigrid Undset is on my mind tonight, because I just got an article about her accepted by a journal. Liv Ullman was probably the least suitable director in the world wholly unsympathetic to the author’s intentions. ![]() ![]() I was, frankly, not entirely happy with the movie version. I do have the VHS version, but my machine isn’t hooked up so I can’t watch it. As you’ll see from the link, it’s prohibitively expensive on Amazon, so I don’t expect I’ll be getting it on DVD. Above is the trailer for the 1995 Norwegian film production of Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, directed by Liv Ullman. ![]()
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