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==Return to Norway and death== Undset returned to Norway after the liberation in 1945.<ref name=catholicviking /> She lived another four years but never published another word. Neither she nor her son Hans thrived after returning to Bjerkebæk.<ref>Oddvar Rakeng: ''Bjerkebæk'' (s. 26)</ref> In May 1948 she had a psychological breakdown, while on visit to her birth town [[Kalundborg]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sigrun Slapgard|title=Dikterdronningen|page=525-526|language=no|publisher=Gyldendal|year=2007|location=Oslo|isbn=978-82-05-33289-8}}</ref> In June 1949 she was admitted to Lillehammer hospital with kidney inflammation.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sigrun Slapgard|title=Dikterdronningen|page=532-533|language=no|publisher=Gyldendal|year=2007|location=Oslo|isbn=978-82-05-33289-8}}</ref> Undset died shortly after at 67 in [[Lillehammer]], Norway, where she had lived from 1919 through 1940. She was buried in the village of [[Mesnali]], 15 kilometers east of Lillehammer, where also her daughter and the son who died in battle are remembered.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gd.no/eget-onske-og-lokal-prest-avgjorende-da-sigrid-undset-ble-gravlagt-i-mesnali/o/5-18-1553229|publisher=gd.no|title=Eget ønske og lokal prest avgjørende da Sigrid Undset ble gravlagt i Mesnali|date=16 May 2022|access-date=9 April 2025|language=no|author=Hallvard Grotli}}</ref> The grave is recognizable by three black crosses.
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