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“Grettir’s Saga is an outlaw saga, telling the story of the anti-hero Grettir from his early years as a difficult teen who quarrelled with his father, to a man famed for his strength and courage, to a hunted man with a bounty on his head.” Read more...
Five Timeless Books Rooted in Oral Storytelling
Tuva Kahrs, Five Books Editor
Our most recommended books
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Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
by Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb -
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
J R R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (editor) -
Heaven and Hell
by Jón Kalman Stefánson, translated by Philip Roughton -
The Vinland Sagas
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Land of Love and Ruins
by Oddný Eir, translated by Philip Roughton -
A Description of the Northern Peoples
by Olaus Magnus
