Njal's saga
"Full of dreams, strange prophecies, sexual slander, violent power struggles and fragile peace settlements, Njal's Saga is a compelling chronicle of a fifty-year blood feud." "Written in the late thirteenth century, it is the most powerful and popular of the great Icelandic Family Sagas and teems with memorable and complex characters such as Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a great warrior with an aversion to killing, the Iago-like Mord Valgardsson, and the wise and prescient Njal himself. Alongside the heroism and prowess there is also blood spilt in acts of cowardice and cruelty. Despite its distance from us in time and place, Njal's Saga explores perennial human problems: from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence quite beyond their control."--Jacket
Sagas
xli, 377 pages : maps, genealogical tables ; 20 cm
9780140447699, 0140447695
47938075
"This translation first published in The complete sagas of Icelanders (including 49 tales) III ..., Leifur Eiríksson Publishing Ltd, Iceland 1997"--Title page verso
Translated from the Old Icelandic
Translated from the Old Icelandic