NMLP P-029251 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

Kristin Lavransdatter (Kransen / Husfrue / Korset)

Sigrid Undset · H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Kristiania (Oslo) · 1920

The decisive point of issue is Aschehoug's printing-run ("tusen"/thousand) convention: the true first printing carries the 1920 title-page date and does NOT state an elevated thousand-count; later impressions are marked with a printing statement such as "femte tusen" (5th thousand) or "40 tusen." Kransen was a runaway success and was reprinted heavily within a couple of years (dealer copies dated 1923 already state "40 tusen"), so any copy showing a high thousand-count or a post-1920 title-page date is a later printing, not the first

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-029251 for "Kristin Lavransdatter (Kransen / Husfrue / Korset)" by Sigrid Undset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-029251, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).