
For our 4th anniversary, we celebrate Halloween with one of the great tales of the unquiet dead from the Icelandic sagas — namely,
Grettis saga and the story of Grettir’s fight with the revenant Glámr. We also recommend three good horror movies that relate to revenants and medieval themes.
Today’s Text:
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The Story of Grettir the Strong. Translated by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris, New Ed., Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.
Google Books.
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Grettis saga. Edited by Valdimar Ásmundarson, 1900.
Google Books.
References:
- Grettir’s Saga. Translated by Jesse Byock. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Deep Dream of a medievalized Pumpkinhead.
And you can get much more information about
Grettis saga at the
Saga Thing podcast (namely,
episode 16, parts A-E).
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