Dale Nelson Wrote:
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> Sawfish wrote:
>
> > ….I somehow was
> > introduced to the existence of the Icelandic
> > sagas, which are folk history, of course, and
> the
> > few I read onlne were very, very powerful
> > accounts. Jealousy, envy, revenge, etc.
> Something
> > like the Illiad, but small scale.
>
>
> Is there any chance you first met the saga world
> in Sam Moskowitz's anthology Horrors Unknown, from
> the early 1970s or so? It contains the "Grettir
> at Thorhallsstead" passage with the hero's
> encounter with the undead creature Glam. Grettir
> dispatches Glam, but is permanently damaged; when
> he'd got the better of the horrible Glam, had him
> pinned to the ground as I recall, Grettir looked
> at Glam's eyes and saw the reflection of the
> moonlight in them, and Glam prophesied that
> Grettir would never be free of the sight. Brrr!
>
> Or did you maybe read Poul Anderson's retelling of
> Hrolf Kraki's Saga in the Ballantine fantasy
> series?
>
> You're sure right in suggesting the importance of
> the feud element in the sagas.
I haven't read any of these. It was translations of the actual sagas, themselves.
Like this:
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You know, you're helping to build a really fine reading list... :^)
--Sawfish
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