Njal's Saga
, by Hollander, L. M.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781853267857 | 1853267856
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/1/1999
Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, about events a couple of centuries earlier, it is divided into three parts: the first recounts the touching friendship between noble Gunnar and the statesman Njal, together with the fatal enmity between their wives. The second part works out the central tragedy of the saga, while the third describes the retribution wrought by Flosi and Kari.