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The Saga of Grettir the Strong (Penguin Classics) (1st Edition) by Bernard Scudder (Translator), Örnólfur Thorsson (Editor), Leifur Eiricksson, Ornolfur Thorsson Anonymous, Contributor-Ornolfur Thorsson Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-14-044773-3 / 0140447733 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044773-6 / 9780140447736 Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, "The Saga of Grettir the Strong" is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age becoming eclipsed by Christianity and a more |