Love and Trouble in the Icelandic Sagas # 59010
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Love and Confusion in the Icelandic Sagas. By Thomas Bredsdorff. Translated by Bjarni Sigurðsson.
In a book launch in Þjóðviljan on December 14, 1974, Love and Confusion is told. "Thomas Bredsdorff is a young Danish scholar, a lecturer in Nordic literature at Hafnarfjörður University. Love and Dilemma contains research on the life story of the Icelandic sagas, but is above all a definition of some of our most famous ancient sagas, such as Egils saga, Gisli saga Súrsson, Njáls saga, Grettir saga and Laxdælasaga. The author's knowledge and ingenuity cannot be questioned, as he reaches a number of significant and innovative conclusions in his book. Among other things, he shows that behind the obvious themes of the works, which are reflected in bloody conflicts for power and honor, another story pattern can easily be discerned, the passionate loves and the dangers that society is faced with when they are followed without regard for law and legal rules. Thus, in the author's opinion, the Icelandic sagas become an attempt to explain the reason for the chaos and dissolution of the Icelandic nation, but the final chapter explains to what extent these observations are consistent with previous research on the sagas."
In a book launch in Þjóðviljan on December 14, 1974, Love and Confusion is told. "Thomas Bredsdorff is a young Danish scholar, a lecturer in Nordic literature at Hafnarfjörður University. Love and Dilemma contains research on the life story of the Icelandic sagas, but is above all a definition of some of our most famous ancient sagas, such as Egils saga, Gisli saga Súrsson, Njáls saga, Grettir saga and Laxdælasaga. The author's knowledge and ingenuity cannot be questioned, as he reaches a number of significant and innovative conclusions in his book. Among other things, he shows that behind the obvious themes of the works, which are reflected in bloody conflicts for power and honor, another story pattern can easily be discerned, the passionate loves and the dangers that society is faced with when they are followed without regard for law and legal rules. Thus, in the author's opinion, the Icelandic sagas become an attempt to explain the reason for the chaos and dissolution of the Icelandic nation, but the final chapter explains to what extent these observations are consistent with previous research on the sagas."