NMLP P-029254 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

Kristin Lavransdatter (Kransen / Husfrue / Korset)

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

Watch for cheap later reprints masquerading as significant. Aschehoug reprinted the Norwegian text heavily (thousand-counts running into the tens of thousands), and there are one-volume Norwegian "Kristin Lavransdatter" collected editions and Nobel-era reprints — none of these are the 1920–22 first. On the English side, the Knopf translation was reprinted for decades and cheaply reprinted by Grosset & Dunlap "by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf" (the widely digitized Project Gutenberg text of The Bridal Wreath is from a Grosset & Dunlap reprint — its title page reads "GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf" while retaining the 1923 Knopf copyright — not the 1923 Knopf first); a Grosset & Dunlap imprint or any elevated Knopf printing statement marks a reprint. The three-volumes-in-one omnibus editions (e.g., later collected volumes, and modern Penguin/Vintage sets with the Tiina Nunnally translation) are reader editions, not first printings. No true "book-club edition" issue is prominent for the original Norwegian first; the main traps are later Aschehoug thousand-count printings and post-1923 English reprints (notably the Grosset & Dunlap issue).

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-029254 for "Kristin Lavransdatter (Kransen / Husfrue / Korset)" by Sigrid Undset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-029254, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).