Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri

First edition in Penguin Classics for two powerful prose sagas, and part of a new series of eight Icelandic Sagas.

These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact revenge at any cost and whose death is tragic when it comes. In contrast, his nephew, Snorri, represents a new generati…