Mesnali is a village in the municipality of Ringsaker

Ringsaker

is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Brumunddal.The municipality of Ringsaker was established on 1 January 1838...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Its population (2009) is 754.
Mesnali is situated 15 km south-east of Lillehammer and 8 km south-west of Sjusjoen, an in Norway very famous wintersport-village with excellent cross-country conditions and also a center for down-hill-skiing, with the biggest concentration of cottages in all of Norway.

Mesnali is also known as the site of the grave of Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.-Biography:Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, she converted to Catholicism and became a lay Dominican...

, a Norwegian author who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her portrait is on the Norwegian 500-kroner note.