The Axe Author:Sigrid Undset Sigrid Unset was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928....The author considered this extraordinary drama of life in Norway during the thirteenth century superior to her great trilogy of fourteenth century life which is famous throughout the world as Kristin Lavransdatter. — This is the first novel of a tetralogy...It is the story of the ... more »young Olaf Audunsson, of how he killed a man and became an outlaw. And, when he returned home and found his betrothed carrying another man's child of how he killed again.« less