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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... Read Full Overview

'Njal's Saga' is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, about events a couple of centuries earlier, it is divided into three parts: the first recounts the touching friendship between noble Gunnar and the statesman Njal,... Read Full Overview

Considered to be one of the finest of the Icelandic sagas, "Njal's Saga" or "The Story of Burnt Njal" was written sometime in the thirteenth century by an unknown author and is the longest and most developed of the Icelandic sagas. The source material for the saga was historical... Read Full Overview

Nj ls saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders. The most prominent characters are the friends Nj ll orgeirsson, a lawyer and a sage, and Gunnarr H mundarson, a formidable warrior. In the course of a feud, Gunnarr is exiled and must leave Iceland but as he rides away from his home... Read Full Overview

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L'une des oeuvres les plus fameuses de Scandinavie. Datant du XIIIe si cle, cette saga d taille les querelles f roces qui ont fait l'histoire de... Read Full Overview

The Nj ls Saga (in Icelandic Saga Brennu-Nj ls) is one of the most famous and important of the Sagas of Icelanders. The work was written in the thirteenth century prose in Old Norse language, by an anonymous Icelandic author of considerable erudition, as inferred by the richness... Read Full Overview

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In the course of a feud, Gunnarr is exiled and must leave Iceland but as he rides away from his home he is struck by the beauty of the land and resolves to stay; this quickly leads to his death. Some years later, Nj l is burned alive in his home as a part of a cycle of killing... Read Full Overview

Considered to be one of the finest of the Icelandic sagas, "Njal's Saga" (or "The Story of Burnt Njal") was written sometime in the thirteenth century by an unknown author and is the longest and most developed of the sagas. The source material for the saga was historical but... Read Full Overview