The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Poetry_Gift_Guide “A book that has stayed

“A book that has stayed with me ever since I put it down

laying bare a century of disagreement about an idea so powerful

Don't trust anyone

FF and MMF (and then some)

Like no other concept and like no other space

The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Poetry_Gift_Guide “A book that has stayedA unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured further west to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of