| Eyrbyggja Saga Translated by Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards |
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Another prominent medieval Icelandic saga. This one mixes wild Gothic imagination and realism, it dramatizes a thiteenth century view of the past. Its central figure, Snorri, a man so perplexingly ambiguous that the narrator himself is drawn to speculate on his motives and a character who brilliantly epitomizes the violent stresses of his times. "Of all the various records of
Icelandic history and literature, there is non more
interesting This is yet another example of a powerful prose work with an unknown author. |
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