# The Axe

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- Book: [The Axe](https://www.bookquiver.com/sigrid-undset/the-axe) ([The Axe.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sigrid-undset/the-axe.md))
- Authors: [Sigrid Undset](https://www.bookquiver.com/sigrid-undset)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7975-273-8
- Pages: 304
- Published: 1994-11-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Set in thirteenth-century Norway, a land racked by political turmoil and bloody family vendettas, The Axe is the first volume in Sigrid Undset's epic tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken. In it we meet...