>There's a big thick book of the Icelandic Sagas on the shelf that I think I
>managed to wade through to the end of. And the Orkneyinga Saga somewhere.
>Can't tell you what or who any of them are about, nothing at all stuck in
>memory.
>
>> Egil
>> (not surprisingly) is a major character in Egil's Saga. Njall and
>> his pal Gunnar in Njall's Saga. And while women don't go adventuring,
>> there are strong female characters in Laxdaela Saga.
>
>OK, will try to track them down. Maybe it's going to be like beer. I
>thought for years that I didn't like the stuff. It turned out that
>what I didn't like was *cheap* beer.
A lot probably depends on the translation, the first translation of Welsh mythology I read was absolutely dire from a readability point of view. Yet properly written they're good stories. There seem to be three types of translation - children's (simplified and censored), academic (accurate for words and/or rhyme) and adult fiction (accurate for story but with modified language).
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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