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- catalog abstract ""Full of dreams, strange prophecies, sexual slander, violent power struggles and fragile peace settlements, Njal's Saga is a compelling chronicle of a fifty-year blood feud." "Written in the late thirteenth century, it is the most powerful and popular of the great Icelandic Family Sagas and teems with memorable and complex characters such as Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a great warrior with an aversion to killing, the Iago-like Mord Valgardsson, and the wise and prescient Njal himself. Alongside the heroism and prowess there is also blood spilt in acts of cowardice and cruelty. Despite its distance from us in time and place, Njal's Saga explores perennial human problems: from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence quite beyond their control."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Njáls saga. English.".
- catalog contributor b12579872.
- catalog contributor b12579873.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Full of dreams, strange prophecies, sexual slander, violent power struggles and fragile peace settlements, Njal's Saga is a compelling chronicle of a fifty-year blood feud." "Written in the late thirteenth century, it is the most powerful and popular of the great Icelandic Family Sagas and teems with memorable and complex characters such as Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a great warrior with an aversion to killing, the Iago-like Mord Valgardsson, and the wise and prescient Njal himself. Alongside the heroism and prowess there is also blood spilt in acts of cowardice and cruelty. Despite its distance from us in time and place, Njal's Saga explores perennial human problems: from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence quite beyond their control."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxiv-xxxvi) and index.".
- catalog extent "xli, 377 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0140447695 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "40007946327".
- catalog isPartOf "Penguin classics".
- catalog isPartOf "World of the sagas".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "Translated from the Old Icelandic.".
- catalog language "eng non".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Penguin,".
- catalog subject "839.68 21".
- catalog subject "Njáll Þorgursson, approximately 930-1011.".
- catalog subject "PT7269.N4 E52 2001".
- catalog subject "Sagas Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Sagas.".
- catalog title "Njal's saga / translated with introduction and notes by Robert Cook.".
- catalog type "Translations. fast".
- catalog type "text".