hellziggy

The ones I read (Njal's Saga and Volsunga Saga) were for my Medieval Epic and Romance class. They were pretty awesome too - Iceland has this incredible tradition of legends that I had no idea existed. Volsunga Saga is sort of the same story as The Nibelungenlied, which is about Sigfried (the one Wagner wrote The Ring about, I think), with sort of the same events and sort of the same characters. It's got lots of gods and women who kill their own husbands and then burn in the pyre flames. Incest. Dragon slaying. Very cool. Njal's Saga is this very long chronicle of an Icelandic family and all of the things that happen to it, circling around revenge and its necessary problems. That one I enjoyed less, but it was still written with a very wry, dry humor, and awesome battle scenes.