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Jun 21, 2011
Steve
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Grettir’s Saga is considered the last of the great Icelandic sagas. The underlying message the author seems to be conveying is that a pagan culture is rapidly being replaced by a more orderly Christian one. Maybe, but for saga lovers, not that fast. You will still find in Grettir’s Saga, the remarkable economy of language that is found generally in the sagas, as well as a great deal of extreme violence. Heads are hewed in two, and eye is gouged out, a jaw ripped off, limbs cut off, house burning
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Gaijinmama
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