The Saga Of Grettir The Strong A Viking Legend
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The Saga Of Grettir The Strong A Viking Legend
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Author : Unknown
language : en
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2010-03
The Saga Of Grettir The Strong A Viking Legend written by Unknown and has been published by Abela Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03 with Fiction categories.
In this saga, Grettir's life is told from beginning to end. As a child, he is rebellious and bad-tempered. He is described as red haired, freckled, and broad around the eyes. But he is also courageous. He takes on and defeats a draugr, a walking corpse or Norse equivalent of a zombie. But in doing so he is cursed, and this is thought to be the cause of his later misfortunes. At times Grettir falls into the role of a bona fide hero, but he is blamed for setting fire to a hall, killing many men, and is condemned by the Thing (assembly) to outlawry (although many suspect the validity of this sentence). This means that anyone may attempt to kill him without legal penalty and citizens are forbidden to help in any way. Many attempts are made but none succeed. This is not dissimilar to the Saga of Gisli. Grettir eventually becomes the longest surviving outlaw in Icelandic history. When he has completed nearly 20 years as an outlaw, his friends and family ask for his outlawry to be lifted, arguing that a man may not spend more than 20 years as an outlaw (in reality there was no such law in medieval Iceland). After a debate at the assembly, it is decided that the outlawry will be lifted when he has truly completed the 20 years, but not before. His enemies make one last effort, using sorcery causing him to wound himself and finally defeat him in the lonely, fortress-like Drangey off the northern tip of Iceland where he was staying with his brother Illugi, and slave Glaumur. Later, in Constantinople where the Norse served as the Varangian Guard to the Emperor, Grettir's half brother, Thorsteinn of Dromund, avenges his murder. 33% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity.
Grettis Saga
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
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The Saga Of Grettir The Strong Grettir S Saga
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-10
The Saga Of Grettir The Strong Grettir S Saga written by Anonymous and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-10 with Fiction categories.
'The Saga of Grettir the Strong' is one of the Icelanders' sagas. It details the life of Grettir Ásmundarson, a bellicose Icelandic outlaw. The first part of the story primarily focuses on how Grettir's viking great-grandfather Onundur Tree-foot escaped Norway to settle in Iceland after fighting in the Battle of Hafrsfjord against the first king of Norway Harald Fairhair.
Grettis Saga
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
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The Story Of Grettir The Strong
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
The Story Of Grettir The Strong written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Sagas categories.
Viking Sagas
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Author : George Ainslie Hight
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Viking Sagas written by George Ainslie Hight and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Viking tales of heroes, villains, warriors, explorers and kings, told around campfires and mead halls for centuries. The stories of Grettir the Strong, and of Kormac the Skald. And the saga of Erik the Red, who settled Greenland, and his son Leif the Lucky, who sailed to America centuries before Columbus.
The Saga Of Grettir The Strong
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language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-05-26
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Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age becoming eclipsed by Christianity and a more pastoral lifestyle. Unable to settle into a community of farmers, Grettir becomes the aggressive scourge of both honest men and evil monsters - until, following a battle with the sinister ghost Glam, he is cursed to endure a life of tortured loneliness away from civilisation, fighting giants, trolls and berserks. A mesmerising combination of pagan ideals and Christian faith, this is a profoundly moving conclusion to the Golden Age of the saga writing.
The Saga Of Grettir The Strong Esprios Classics
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language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2022-01-04
The Saga Of Grettir The Strong Esprios Classics written by and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-04 with Fiction categories.
"There was a man named Onund, the son of Ofeig Clumsyfoot, who was the son of Ivar Horsetail. Onund was the brother of Gudbjorg, the mother of Gudbrand Knob, the father of Asta, the mother of King Olaf the Saint. His mother came from the Upplands, while his father's relations were mostly in Rogaland and Hordland. He was a great viking and used to harry away in the West over the sea. He was accompanied on these expeditions by one Balki, the son of Blaeing from Sotanes, and by Orm the Wealthy. Another comrade of theirs was named Hallvard. They had five ships, all well equipped."
Grettis Saga The Story Of Grettir The Strong Translated From The Icelandic By E Magn Sson And W Morris
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
Grettis Saga The Story Of Grettir The Strong Translated From The Icelandic By E Magn Sson And W Morris written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with categories.
Saga Of Grettir The Strong Grettir S Saga
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language : en
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Release Date : 1995
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Presents the full-text of "The Saga of Grettir the Strong (Grettir's Saga)," which was written in the early 14th century in Icelandic. Notes that the translation was by G.H. Hight and the text was published online as part of the Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) Web site of Douglas B. Killings.