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by (shelved 200 times as saga)
avg rating 4.16 — 357,764 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 170 times as saga)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,208,423 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 156 times as saga)
avg rating 4.49 — 115,250 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 141 times as saga)
avg rating 4.48 — 98,553 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 130 times as saga)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,746,902 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 130 times as saga)
avg rating 4.41 — 81,826 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 126 times as saga)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,409,478 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 124 times as saga)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,053,256 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 122 times as saga)
avg rating 4.40 — 71,501 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 122 times as saga)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,122,703 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 120 times as saga)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,736,491 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 119 times as saga)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,604,380 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 112 times as saga)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,660 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 111 times as saga)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,725,639 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 106 times as saga)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,203,029 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 100 times as saga)
avg rating 4.48 — 47,501 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 89 times as saga)
avg rating 4.56 — 33,830 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 88 times as saga)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,100,267 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 87 times as saga)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,699,925 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 85 times as saga)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,968,281 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 85 times as saga)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,022,340 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 83 times as saga)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,850,537 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 81 times as saga)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,076,372 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 71 times as saga)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,651,146 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 66 times as saga)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,145,766 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 65 times as saga)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,377,633 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 62 times as saga)
avg rating 4.45 — 38,593 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 60 times as saga)
avg rating 4.35 — 818,781 ratings — published 1989

by (shelved 58 times as saga)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,312,172 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 56 times as saga)
avg rating 4.64 — 3,064,520 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 56 times as saga)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,141,392 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 54 times as saga)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,326,623 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 53 times as saga)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,287,897 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.49 — 931,969 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,430,279 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,009,588 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,093,843 ratings — published 1954

by (shelved 52 times as saga)
avg rating 4.25 — 362,883 ratings — published 1977

by (shelved 51 times as saga)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,125,920 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 50 times as saga)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,672,246 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 49 times as saga)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,195 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 49 times as saga)
avg rating 4.22 — 814,384 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 49 times as saga)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,736,573 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 48 times as saga)
avg rating 3.69 — 76,831 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 48 times as saga)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,583,995 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 46 times as saga)
avg rating 4.34 — 602,059 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 46 times as saga)
avg rating 4.55 — 837,575 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 43 times as saga)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,184,283 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 42 times as saga)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,001,666 ratings — published 2012
“The saga teems with life and action, with memorable and complex characters from the heroic Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a warrior without equal who dislikes killing, to the
villainous, insinuating Mord Valgardsson, who turns out to be less dastardly than we first expect. Unforgettable events include Skarphedin’s head-splitting axe blow as he glides past his opponent on an icy river bank, or Hildigunn’s provoking of her uncle to seek blood revenge by placing on his shoulders the blood-clotted cloak in which
her husband was slain...
Just as in the Norse poem Völuspá (‘The Seeress’s Prophecy’) the gods met their doom (no mere twilight) at the hands of brute giants and monsters, after which a new and peaceful earth arose, so do the terrible events of Njal’s Saga lead finally and at great cost to a dignified resolution bearing the promise of a better time.
(Robert Cook(”
― Njal's Saga
villainous, insinuating Mord Valgardsson, who turns out to be less dastardly than we first expect. Unforgettable events include Skarphedin’s head-splitting axe blow as he glides past his opponent on an icy river bank, or Hildigunn’s provoking of her uncle to seek blood revenge by placing on his shoulders the blood-clotted cloak in which
her husband was slain...
Just as in the Norse poem Völuspá (‘The Seeress’s Prophecy’) the gods met their doom (no mere twilight) at the hands of brute giants and monsters, after which a new and peaceful earth arose, so do the terrible events of Njal’s Saga lead finally and at great cost to a dignified resolution bearing the promise of a better time.
(Robert Cook(”
― Njal's Saga

“The goal here is to avoid the lake. I can assure you; no swimming or other preparation is needed. We would not recommend swimming anyway. The lake is full of giant eels that attack anything that moves.”
― Proud Pada
― Proud Pada