{"id":8890,"date":"2014-10-02T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2014-12-23T19:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T23:11:58","slug":"in-between-insomnia-and-scandinavia-gorgeous-paintings-inspired-by-norwegian-family-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/10\/in-between-insomnia-and-scandinavia-gorgeous-paintings-inspired-by-norwegian-family-novels.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In Between Insomnia and Scandinavia&#8221;: Gorgeous Paintings Inspired by Norwegian Family Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattfrost\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matt Frost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b class=\"interview_name\">TMN:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve said the novel trilogy <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kristin_Lavransdatter\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kristin Lavransdatter<\/a><\/em> was an inspiration for this latest series. Are you depicting scenes from the books, or something else?<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"interview_name\">Carson Ellis:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I read <em>Kristin Lavransdatter<\/em> for a long time. I took breaks between the three books to read other things, but I was sort of plodding through it on and off for nearly a year. For people who don\u2019t know: It\u2019s set in medieval Norway, written by Sigrid Undset in the \u201920s, meticulously researched, sort of dry but really beautiful with its descriptions of snowy medieval Scandinavia\u2014of men skiing over the mountains at night to bring news to their neighbors and thatch-roofed compounds and forests blanketed with reindeer moss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/gallery\/in-between-insomnia-and-scandinavia\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a>!!!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Matt Frost. TMN: You\u2019ve said the novel trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter was an inspiration for this latest series. Are you depicting scenes from the books, or something else? Carson Ellis: I read Kristin Lavransdatter for a long time. 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