domingo, 20 de enero de 2008

Njal's Saga, Chapters 39-59

I'm glad we seem to be done with Hellgar and Njal's wife. All their sending servants out to kill each other was getting old, and if they hated each other that much they should have met face to face and fought it out, not sent others to kill innocent people who'd done nothing wrong.

We also hear a bit about Gunnar and his adventures. First he kills about eight men, and somehow manages to get away with it; then he goes horse fighting and wins. He and Njal are still good friends, despite the feud between their wives, and they still manage to work everything out between themselves.

Reading this books really makes you realize how wild the world must have been back then. The only punishment for killing someone is a fine, and people seem to do that a lot, you can have huge fights where a bunch of men are killed in broad daylight, and then still manage to get out of any problems when you're being judged, and people burn each others houses for food. Iceland must have been one scary place.

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