Ken Fredette's Reviews > Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows

I like Tiina Nunnally's translation of Olav Audunssøn's Vows. She makes it so readable that it seems as if Sigrid Undset was living now rather than when she wrote the story in 1902 with the first draft of Olav Audunssøn. The book stems from the two fathers of Olav and Ingunn making them bound by oath to be wed someday. Giving a ring to Olav as wedding present to Ingunn. Sigrid transforms this into something that affects the lives of Olav and Ingunn with everything that they do. It takes over 10 years to bring them together. We follow their lives with the deaths of the people who have allowed this to happen. And the people who put a stop to the union with their deaths. I was amazed how the lives of Ingunn and Olav had changed over the years and followed the story with wonder. I can see how in 1928 Sigrid Undset won the Nobel prize for this story. Many things stay the same.