Editing Sigrid Undset (section)

==Later life==
At the end of this creative eruption, Undset entered calmer waters. After 1929, she completed a series of novels set in contemporary [[Oslo]], with a strong Catholic element. She selected her themes from the small Catholic community in Norway. But here also, the main theme is love. She also published a number of weighty historical works which put the history of Norway into a sober perspective. In addition, she translated several [[Icelandic sagas]] into Modern Norwegian and published a number of literary essays, mainly on English literature, of which a long essay on the [[Brontë]] sisters, and one on [[D. H. Lawrence]], are especially worth mentioning.

In 1934, she published ''Eleven Years Old'', an autobiographical work. With a minimum of camouflage, it tells the story of her own childhood in Kristiania, of her home, rich in intellectual values and love, and of her sick father.

At the end of the 1930s, she commenced work on a new historical novel set in 18th century Scandinavia. Only the first volume, ''Madame Dorthea'', was published, in 1939. The [[Second World War]] broke out that same year and proceeded to break her, both as a writer and as a woman. She never completed her new novel. When [[Joseph Stalin]]'s invasion of Finland touched off the [[Winter War]], Undset supported the Finnish war effort by donating her Nobel Prize on 25 January 1940.<ref>[http://www.mil.fi/perustietoa/talvisota_eng/timer-60.html The Winter War 1939—1940] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502040038/http://www.mil.fi/perustietoa/talvisota_eng/timer-60.html |date=2 May 2009 }} The Finnish Defence Forces, 1999.</ref>