Eyrbyggja Saga (Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002RI9XZQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 420 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"History as soap opera?" according to wiredweird. I mean that in the best way. Like so many other sagas, this skips from one exciting moment to the next, skimming over the years and majority of people living peaceful lives. But what moments! Alliances made and broken, vendetta, treachery, courtroom drama (almost), all with an uncommon underpinning of the darkly supernatural. Those eerie passages, I think set this apart form so many others. Perhaps this didn't have the sustained narrative of Njal's Saga, for example, but plenty to pull the reader forward. An, since the . Great book This is an intriguing and insightful book that looks into the early settlers of Iceland and how they lived.. "icelandic lore" according to C. Holland. this is one of the most unusual of the sagas, full of drama and characters, and as immediate and clear as if it were written yesterday. a profound and grateful salaam to herman palsson for translating so many of these wonderful medieval stories!
An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society.
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Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Icelandic