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Two legendary sagas of Viking travel into Russia around 1015,
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This review is from: Vikings in Russia: Yngvar's Saga and Eymund's Saga (Hardcover)
Expensive little book runs just 102 pages: 25 pages for Yngvar's Saga and 20 for Eymund's Saga. The rest of the book comprises a lengtly introduction and a collected glossary of Icelandic Sagas. Both saga's relate stories of forays into Russia in an economy of style that makes them quick and easy to follow. Interesting, but probably hardly historical, they are filled with some true references but much embellishment by the storytellers (not the translators). Yngvar's Saga reminded me of a kind of Argonautica (Jason and the Golden Fleece) as Yngvar searches for the source of a river, while Eydmund's speaks instead of Vikings acting as a mercenary army for Russian Kings. Unlike some other sagas, these would have benefitted from being more fleshed out.
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Vikings in Russia: Yngvar's Saga and Eymund's Saga by Hermann Palsson (Hardcover - Sept. 1989)
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