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I read the Royall Tyler translation and the Folio Society edition. One of the bonuses of the edition I read is the marvellous art work. Well over a thousand pages long and over a thousand years old (written between 1000 and 1012). I can well understand how people can spend their whole lives studying this and around this. Sadly I didn’t discover this in my youth but nevertheless it was a wonderful reading experience. Not easy to follow all the time as there is a myriad of characters and it is mos
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The Japanese wrote this, and the great works of Western European literature at the same time were the Viking sagas. Now, let's talk about the virtues of western civilisation shall we?
Okay, I exaggerate, but not by much.
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Okay, I exaggerate, but not by much.
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