Njal’s Saga by Anonymous

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featuring Paul Roberge, Professor of Germanic Languages and Professor of Linguistics

Considered the greatest of the Icelandic sagas

Written in the thirteenth century, Njal’s Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems—from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law’s inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. Full of dreams, strange prophecies, violent power struggles, and fragile peace agreements, Njal’s Saga tells the compelling story of a fifty-year blood feud that, despite its distance from us in time and place, is driven by passions familiar to us all.  — Penguin Random House, Inc.

Based on events that took place between 960 and 1020 AD, Njal ‘s Saga is a mesmerizing drama about a multigenerational cycle of violence and retribution, and the feuds and passions that perpetuate it. It provides glimpses of a society transitioning away from the Iron Age to the Middle Ages and establishing the social and legal mores of its present.  — Naxos Audiobooks

Njal’s Saga, or The Story of Burnt Njal, is the longest and most developed of the Icelandic sagas…a beautifully written and timeless epic.  — Digireads.com Publishing

Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, December 1 and December 8

Cost: $35, includes a copy of the book shipped to your home

Register online or call 919.962.1544