Product Description
B684b - P51b - 500 kroner - Date: 2000 (withdrawn 18.10.2019) - Grade: UNC - Signature: 17: Gjedrem/Johansen - Description: Colour: Yellow, brown, and tan. - Front: Norwegian text; double-cross; Gudbrandsdal tapestries; lace collar; novelist Sigrid Undset. - Back: Norwegian text; Gudbrandsdal tapestries; bridal wreath of wheat spikes and wild roses. - Holographic stripe. - Solid security thread with demetalized NORGES BANK. - Watermark: Sigrid Undset. - Printer:Norges Bank’s Printing Works - Size: 152 x 75 mm.- Material: Paper
More about the woman on front of the banknote:
Sigrid Undset Born: 20 May 1882 – departed: 10 June 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Born in Denmark and raised in Norway, Undset had her first books of historical fiction published in 1907. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German invasion and occupation of Norway, but returned after World War II ended in 1945. Her best-known work is Kristin Lavransdatter, a trilogy about life in Norway in the Middle Ages, portrayed through the experiences of a woman from birth until death. Its three volumes were published between 1920 and 1922.
