World-Famous Catholic Novelist Dies

Sigrid Undset, the world famous Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize winner in literature, died last Friday, June 10, in Lillehammer, Norway, after an illness lasting some weeks. She was 67. By her studies in Norwegian medieval history, to gather material for her novels, she was converted from the Protestantism in which she was horn.
She wrote the standard work on the Norwegian saints, The Saga of the Saints. Her famous works, including Kristin Lavransdatter and Olav Audunsson, were written in the 1920's, (Appreciation, page 5).