I mean that in the best way. Like so many other sagas, this skips from one exciting moment to the next, skimming over the years and majority of people living peaceful lives. But what moments! Alliances made and broken, vendetta, treachery, courtroom drama (almost), all with an uncommon underpinning of the darkly supernatural. Those eerie passages, I think set this apart form so many others. Perhaps this didn't have the sustained narrative of Njal's Saga, for example, but plenty to pull the reader forward. An, since the original language is a closed book to me, I really appreciated the natural, modern flow of the translation.
One thing I especially enjoyed about this rendering was the translator's familiarity with other sagas, offering footnotes showing where this intersected others - dozens of them, it seemed. I can tell I'll be spending time on them, too. I can't wait to chase some of those references, once my wife gives it back!
-- wiredweird
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