Saga of Grettir the Strong

Name: Saga of Grettir the Strong
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ISBN: 9780140447736

ISBN-10: 0140447733

ISBN-13: 9780140447736

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bernard Scudder, Ornolfur Thorsson, Ornolfur Thorsson

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Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strongis one of the last great Icelandic sagas. With a mesmerizing combination of pagan ideals and Christian faith, it relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh- century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age as they are eclipsed by Christianity and a more pastoral lifestyle. Unable to settle into a community of farmers, Grettir becomes the aggressive scourge of both honest men and evil monstersuntil, following a battle with the sinister ghost Glam, he is cursed to endure a life of tortured loneliness away from civilization, fighting giants, trolls, and berserks.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.78" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Bernard Scudder is an acclaimed translator of sagas, ancient and modern poetry, and leading contemporary novels and plays. ï¿½rnï¿½lfur Thorsson is the editor of the multivolume Sagas of Icelanders.