“Villanger’s varied prose creates a beautiful, tender portrait … has the potential to become a leading writer of her generation … Diffferent world views melt together in a seemingly smooth manner … with tiny ripples and large swells Baugeid’s Book rolls forward like a wave through historical time”
Klassekampen
“Villanger has managed to create a book that sets its own aesthetic standard”
Morgenbladet
«Fascinating … full of invented elements and wild whims … Villanger made her debut in 2012 with the book Longsong, one of the best collections of poetry in recent years. Baugeid’s Book is both more ambitious and more varied, and in any case a worthy follow-up … In aprubt bursts, Aina Villanger snaps us back to the fascinating world of the medieval Norse world. A real poet”
Dagbladet
“It feels like there is something important to learn here, something that is missing in our modern time … There is something strangely liberating in this meeting with a world view where the flesh is so important, where there is a self-evident acceptance of differences between people and were the boundaries between the individual and the collective are weaker … At the same time, Baugeid’s Book articulates another form of freedom: a different aesthetic experience and a new perspective on our own times.”
Dag og Tid
“[Villanger] writes with a unique intimacy and respect for her material. That she manages to grab hold of me and keep me in a tight grip throughout the book. That she through her descriptions of the nuns’ monotone, repetitive interchanging song (Gregorian chant), known from medieval monasteries, manages to make the book sing … Beautiful! Enjoy the read!”
Hammerfestingen
“The book gathers knowledge from many sources into a well-written, tender portrait of Baugeid”
Tom Egil Hverven, Klassekampen, Books of the Year 2017
“A factually meditative fantasty on a real life: A girl becomes an abbess in the 12th century, her fragile being is examined through the formulas of time and space”
Sindre Andersen, Books of the Year 2017, Klassekampen
