| #55782 in Books | imusti | 2005-04-26 | 2005-04-26 | Original language:Icelandic | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.68 x5.10l,.48 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | Penguin Classics||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Egil's Saga|By Miriam Sagan|Egil's Saga
I'm going to Iceland at the end of June (Lord willing and the volcano don't erupt). I'll be spending two weeks in a writer's colony. In preparation, I read one of the Icelandic sagas. The hero is described as warrior-poet Egil Skallagrimsson. That is, he is ugly, strong, an occasional psycho-killer, and a composer of renowned v|About the Author|Bernard Scudder lives in Reykjavík as a full-time translator. His translations encompass sagas, ancient and modern poetry, and leading contemporary novels and plays. In 1998 two novels in his translation were short-listed for the E
Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. The saga recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father's exile from Norway, defend his honour against the Norwegian King Erik Bloodaxe, and f...
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