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"...it's a good thing when you don't dare do something if you don't think it's right. But it's not good when you think something's not right because you don't dare do it." - Sigrid Undset I first came across Sigrid Undset during my first year of teaching. The school where I taught had a set of…
P.M. on The Paris Review ’s Instagram account. For more details, visit our events page, or scroll down to the bottom of the article. Photo: Erica MacLean. The most common food in the medieval historical romance Kristin Lavransdatter, written by the Norwegian author Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), is oatmeal porridge, a dish I made elaborate perfection of during my children’s early years. The porridges in Undset’s book are good and nourishing but plain (though in one scene, a young Kristin eats hers with “thick cream” off her father’s spoon). Mine, on the other hand, were ridiculous....