Status Updates From The Norse Hamlet (Sources o...

Oddly, Hansen claims that appreciation of landscapes was foreign to Northern heroic storytelling. I’d have to read his citation here, but in Njal’s Saga, perhaps the pinnacle of Icelandic sagas and roughly contemporaneous in composition with Saxo’s life of Hamlet, the deuteragonist Gunnar chooses to stay in Iceland after being struck by the beauty of his home. This leads directly to his death.