Egil's Saga

"the writing style is a little dated."


"Mindless Violence as Virtuous Heroics
This book is the perfect example of how each culture justifies their social norm no matter how ridiculous it seems to others. According to this saga: the greatest asset a man can have is brute strength, the best approach in life is anger, and the most adored virtue is killing without blinking an eye and with no justification required. Oh yeah, just stealing the loot is not good enough because it's considered cowardly. It's much better and more manly to rob people face to face then kill them in cold blood ... I used to think they only loot and kill people who were foreigners and strangers. But this saga says, no, they loot and kill anyone anywhere anytime whenever the urge strikes them. Umm... all the violent criminals of today are born in the wrong time and wrong place and missed their great chance to shine as great leaders.
It's considered literature and hugely popular among its own people for many hundreds of years and now considered a classic even by others. It was enjoyed as entertainment by its own people for hundreds of years but it takes an iron stomach and heart of steel to read it now."


"if you like descriptive words set in artful prose, don't go near this book, it's gory but overall bland in speach. You might not completly understand everything even after the second reading of it but thst might be because you're falling asleep(I did several times)"


"reads like a dry history book"

AS AN AID TO GRASPING THE INJUSTICE OF THIS COMPLAINT, I OFFER A REPRESENTATIVE EXCERPT FROM EGIL'S SAGA (TRANSLATION YOUR HUMBLE BLOGGER'S):

"Egil stood up and went across the floor to where Armodh was sitting. He grabbed him by the shoulders and knocked him up against the wall. Then Egil forced up out of himself a great deal of vomit, and it gushed into Armodh's face, into his eyes and nose and into his mouth. It streamed down onto his chest, and Armodh was nearly choking, and when he got his breath back, his own vomit spewed up."