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Njáls saga: Law and bloodshed in Viking Iceland
With a body count higher than an episode of The Sopranos, Njáls saga remains a high point in exploring honor, violence, and fatalism. It speaks to the traumatic effect and self-perpetuating cycle of bloodshed within Viking society.1 year ago — Culture and religion -
Book review: Echoes of Valhalla – The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas by Jón Karl Helgason
What do a wall at the Sorbonne in Paris, the comic book Journey into Mystery #83, and the obscure Swedish 1990s band Bathory have in common? This isn't the start of a bad joke – all three show the fingerprints of the long cultural reach of the Old Norse sagas and eddas.1 year ago — Reviews -
Einar Hafliðason: The medieval scholar who brought Iceland's Viking history to life
So much of what we know about the Viking Age - the events, key figures, sagas, stories, and myths - was written centuries later in Iceland.2 years ago — Culture and religion
