In 1912, Undset married the painter Anders Castus Svarstad and over the next ten years faced the formidable challenge of raising three stepchildren and her own three off-spring with little financial or emotional support from her husband. With her reputation as a writer well-established, Undset had the freedom to explore the world that had first fired her imagination, and in Gunnar's Daughter (1909) she drew upon her knowledge of Norway's history and legends, including the Icelandic Sagas, to recreate medieval life with compelling immediacy. Marta Oulie (1907) and a short-story collection, The Happy Age (1908)-were set in contemporary times and achieved both critical and popular success. Undset's first published works-the novel Mrs. She was particularly entranced by the dramatic Old Norse sagas she read as a child, later declaring that her exposure to them marked "the most important turning point in my life."
Her father's interest in the past had a tremendous influence on Undset. Two years after her birth, the family moved to Oslo, where her father, a distinguished archaeologist, taught at the university. Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) was born in Denmark, the eldest daughter of a Norwegian father and a Danish mother.
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