Excerpt from The Saga of Grettir the Strong; A Story of the Eleventh Century: Translated From the Icelandic A reader who approaches the sagas for the first time is apt to feel a little bewildered. They seem crowded with people with uncouth names and ridiculous nick names, whose occupation is mostly divided between murdering each other and riding to the Thing. In order to read them with enjoyment and to appreciate the consummate literary skill of their composition, it is necessary to understand what an Icelandic saga is, ...
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Excerpt from The Saga of Grettir the Strong; A Story of the Eleventh Century: Translated From the Icelandic A reader who approaches the sagas for the first time is apt to feel a little bewildered. They seem crowded with people with uncouth names and ridiculous nick names, whose occupation is mostly divided between murdering each other and riding to the Thing. In order to read them with enjoyment and to appreciate the consummate literary skill of their composition, it is necessary to understand what an Icelandic saga is, and how its form is determined by certain political events in the North during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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