Icelandic Sagas Quotes

My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven't read many of them and I never will. You just never know. One day I may - need is the word I use - to read Finnegans Wake, the Icelandic sagas, Churchill's history of the Second World War, the complete Tintin in French, 47 novels by Simenon, and By Love Possessed.

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.

For us Icelanders, the Sagas are like the Bible, only much better.

I read a lot of Icelandic sagas when I was young. I've always been interested in the Viking culture.

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.