Chris's review of The Sagas of Icelanders
The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Anonymous
I got this book a couple of years ago and decided to read onw Saga a year. during the winter months. I dunno, Winter seemed the time for reading Nordic Sagas. So this year I read "The Saga of the Cofederates" which, I'm told, is a satire. There is a trickster character who outsmarts the confederates and saves his son, repairs their father-son estrangement, and gets to live comfortably ever after.
Where the first Sagas I read, had little more than bare story, explanation of bloodlines, and property rights, this latest Saga has intricate plot, some charater development, humor and human insight. The tale I read last year (The name of it escapes me right now.) impressed me in a similar way. I think the Sagas are presented in the Penguin edition in chronological order, so I can see the development of a literary style,
I still have several years of Sagas to read at my planned pace.
Where the first Sagas I read, had little more than bare story, explanation of bloodlines, and property rights, this latest Saga has intricate plot, some charater development, humor and human insight. The tale I read last year (The name of it escapes me right now.) impressed me in a similar way. I think the Sagas are presented in the Penguin edition in chronological order, so I can see the development of a literary style,
I still have several years of Sagas to read at my planned pace.
comments
No comments have been added yet.
