Njal's Saga

I really enjoyed this one. There's some likeable characters -- even from my soft-hearted modern point of view -- who I really got to care about, which isn't always the case with sagas. I was kind of sad when they went out of the saga. The translation is good, clear and easy to read, and there's help......more

This took me way too long to read. The Goodreads police put a warrant out for me for the number of in-progress books on my Currently Reading shelf. I flew through the beginning and hit an oil slick somewhere in the middle and slid into the rough. This book is very different from the Edda I read righ......more

_Njal’s Saga_ is one of the classics of the medieval genre of the Family Saga, if not perhaps the classic. It has everything you could want in a saga: extended genealogies of multiple families, inter-family conflict between said families through the generations, shifting loyalties, intrigue, bloody......more

Samo za jednu sagu potrebno je oko 100 telećih koža. Do XIV veka na islandu ih je sačuvano oko 700, od kojih čak 24 predstavljaju varijante „Sage o Njalu”. Pokolj teladi je, reklo bi se, opravdan. A i ima neku simboličku dimenziju. Sve sage obeležene su posebnim viđenjem herojstva koje je neraskidiv......more