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Today I found an awesome anthology called "The Sagas of Icelanders." I studied Icelandic literature when I studied abroad in England and loved the books we read. I wanted to continue when I came back to America, but I had difficulty finding the books in libraries (I make it a point to read books before I buy them). While hanging out at Barnes and Noble, I found this and decided to read "The Tale of Audun from the West Fjords", which was an awesome short story about Audun, a traveler who risks the wrath of the King of Norway by selling his bear to the King of Denmark instead of him. Then I read "The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue." It's a tragic love story in which Gunnlaug gets into a fight to the death with Hrafn when his betrothed, Helga the Fair, is given to his rival. Although this was a rather short saga, I rank it right up there with "Romeo and Juliet" and Chaucer's "Troilus and Crisyde" as a classic. This anthology is definitely going onto my Christmas list.
Also, I plan to incorporate both stories into my own series. In particular, I will allude to "The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue" with Sandra's older sister, who is codenamed "The Narcissist." She, along with Sandra's other sister, almost succeeded in putting down Max in "Daughter of the Seven Seas" and was her archenemy when she attended Nineveh. Suffice it to say that you will learn just how ruthless she is in "Black Swan Origins: Nineveh."
