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Well, I guess I read Egil's Saga a year ago. I don't remember doing so. I'm rereading it in January 2019, as our first real snowstorm of the season blows outside. I'm reading slower this time, going back to look at the maps to learn the locations of events, and double checking names and lineages of the characters.
— Jan 20, 2019 07:02AM
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Lots of Thors-: Thorkel, Thorir, Thorvald, Thorstein. The last is Ingimund’s son, a wise, prophetic, lucky leader. He and his brothers settle Vatnsdal and deal with unruly settler after unruly settler, (and a couple berserks) who challenge their authority. There is note of settlements made at the regular assembly, and in the end, comes a bishop who baptises everybody bringing Christianity to Iceland.
— Jan 22, 2020 06:19PM
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January 2018, I reread Egil's Saga. Egil, a hot-headed superman, defies kings, is loyal to friends, and murderous to enemies. There's quite a bit of bloody battle, occasional magic and, then, suddenly rule of law, appearing unexpectedly. Other names, like King Harald Fair-Hair, Thorgeir Thorn-Foot, or Erling the Wealthy, are engagingly descriptive.
— Jan 22, 2018 04:09AM
