The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers and the heroine Kristin'beautiful strong-willed and passionate'stands with the world's great literary figures. Volume 1 The Bridal Wreath describes young Kristin's stormy romance with the dashing Erlend Nikulausson a young man perhaps overly fond of women of whom her father strongly disapproves.