| #77134 in Books | Anonymous | 2002-05-28 | 2002-05-28 | Original language:Old Norse | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x1.00 x5.10l, | File Name: 0140447695 | 384 pages | Njal s Saga
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Funny, dark, gripping account of Viking vendettas|By Tech journalist|One of the greatest novels written - and one of the earliest - this darkly funny saga of Viking life follows a series of offences and counter-offences that gradually form into a fatal vendetta. From its first line: "There was a man called Mord Fiddle" (Mord means 'murder'…) it gallops along. One o|About the Author|Robert Cook is Professor of English at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that 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 beyond their control. It is populated by memorable and complex characters like Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a powerful warrior with an aversion to killing, and the not-so-villainous Mord Valgards...
You easily download any file type for your device.Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics) | Anonymous. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
