‘Saga Land’ brings Iceland’s historic stories to life

Books , Criticism Jan 06, 2018 No Comments

I didn’t know much about the Icelandic sagas—or indeed much about Iceland itself, as it turned out—before opening Richard Fidler and Kari Gislason’s Saga Land. I’d be surprised if I’m alone in learning something new in its pages.

I’d made some of the same assumptions that Fidler once mistakenly made as well. The ABC broadcaster admits early in this collaborative effort with the Australian-Icelandic writer that he had thought the tales in question were about the old Norse gods and mythological heroes in the vein of Beowulf in the English tradition.

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Read the full review in The Weekend Australian.

Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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