Grettir's Saga (Heritage) As a result of his desire for freedom, he becomes increasingly isolated, although he wishes to live in society, and indeed can hardly bear solitude.Profound and intriguing, Grettir's Saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. He pits himself against bears, berserks, wraiths, trolls, and

Title	:	Grettir's Saga (Heritage)
Author	:	Brand: University of Toronto Press
Rating	:	4.99 (178 Votes)
Asin	:	0802061656
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	226 Pages
Publish Date	:	2001-12-15
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Profound and intriguing, Grettir's Saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. It tells of the life and death of Grettir, a great rebel, individualist, and romantic hero viewed unromantically. Grettir spends his childhood violently defying authority: as a youth of sixteen he kills a man and is outlawed; all the rest of his life he devotes, with remarkable composure, to fighting more and more formidable enemies. He pits himself against bears, berserks, wraiths, trolls, and finally, it seems, the whole population of Iceland. Yet he is not a bloodthirsty killer, but only a man who is totally unwilling to compromise. As a result of his desire for freedom, he becomes increasingly isolated, although he wishes to live in society, and indeed can hardly bear solitude. Driven back and forth from Iceland to Norway, harried around Iceland, he continually flees subjection and confinement only to find a perilous freedom beset both by the external hazards of a new land and by the internal h

Editorial : About the AuthorDenton Fox taught Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto.



Hermann Palsson was a Professor Emeritus of Icelandic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

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