Three Icelandic Outlaw Sagas

Download or read book Three Icelandic Outlaw Sagas written by Anthony Faulkes and published by Orion Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are three epic stories of exile and adventure: the heroes condemned to wander their lands in expiation of crimes committed in honour's name. Gisli with his biting sword Greyflank; Grettir the impetuous hot-head, and Hord the orphan, accursed at birth by his own mother. Each must do battle with the forces of an unforgiving fate - and with the destructive drives of his own character. Monsters, magic and all manner of romance are to be found in these three Icelandic sagas. Yet, with all their heroic extravagance, these tales are human before they are anything else, marked out by their down-to-earth conviction and their sometimes shocking emotional power.