/lit/ - Literature

Egil's Saga
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
And Pelican Shakespeare editions of The Tempest, King Lear and Macbeth

for $11.25 total

>>3308535
Oh, no. I like having them in separate volumes vs. one big volume like that. I know a lot of the translations in that one are different though, so I may pick it up eventually. I'm also not as interested in the ones included in that volume, except the Vinland Sagas and Egil's Saga.

The ones I've read are anything but dry (and seem to be only vaguely historical) - The Saga of the Volsungs includes dragon-slaying, immense treasures, Atilla the Hun, a man playing an harp with his toes in a snake pit, men turning into wolves, Odin popping up to help or hinder in different disguises as he sees fit. The genealogy leading up to Sigurd does get mildly boring, but his ancestors were decently exciting as well.

I think the choices for the Saga of the Icelanders volume does tend towards the dryer ones. Some of the stories in the "Tales" section were included in the Hrafnkel's Saga book I have, and while they were decent looks at historical goings on, they weren't especially riveting.

Everyone seems to love Egil's Saga though. I'm looking forward to it a lot, though the translation I'll be reading is different.