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The Icelandic Sagas

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The Icelandic Sagas	comment	The Icelandic / Old Norse word saga means, basically, story. note In modern Icelandic it can also mean, depending on the context, "statement," "account," or "message." The Icelandic plural is sögur. It’s cognate to the English words "say" and "saw" (as in "old saw" for a cliché). And the sagas are anonymous narratives in the Old West Norse language that were penned in the 13th and 14th century by Icelanders, in Iceland, and preserved in Iceland; which is where the term "Icelandic Sagas" comes in.If this definition sounds clumsy — well, it is, but an absolutely accurate definition of the entirety of sagas is rather difficult, as almost every of the listed characteristics has a few exceptions. For example, some genres of sagas were also cultivated in Norway, which is why some prefer the term "Norse sagas." This again has shortcomings, as indeed a few Latin texts are regarded as sagas for reasons of style and subject matter.This fuzziness is not surprising as, in its basic meaning, the term saga can encompass almost all narrative prose of medieval Norse-speaking Europe.note Which, besides Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland, also included Shetland, Orkney, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and some bilingual places — like Dublin, the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, and Caithness in Scotland. Medieval Iceland, however, was exceptionally productive in literary output, the place where writers most consequently used their native Norse (as opposed to Latin), and where most manuscripts of Old Norse literature were preserved.The good news is that these issues of terminology are mostly irrelevant to the reader, as "Icelandic sagas" and "Norse sagas" can be used interchangeably, with few exceptions. The one name you should avoid is "Viking sagas" — as in the world of the sagas, a "viking" is strictly a seaborne raider, and while many sagas are set in the so-called Viking Age, only a few of them deal with sea raiders and viking expeditions prominently.Sagas come in different genres, which are defined by their subject matter. Three genres stand out as the most important and famous:
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_12d4a4c2	type	The Migration
The Icelandic Sagas / int_12d4a4c2	comment	The Migration: Episodes from the settlement of Iceland often form the opening chapters of multi-generational sagas.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_185ea595	type	The Trickster
The Icelandic Sagas / int_185ea595	comment	The Trickster: Several sagas, such as Gisli Sursson's, have a character named Ref — Icelandic for "Fox" — who always lives up to his name. There is also a Saga of Ref the Sly, where the eponymous hero tricks Harald Hardradi. (Parts of the Saga of Ref, and some of the scenes dealing with bit-part Ref characters in other sagas, show clear similarities to the French "Reynard" folktales.)
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Icelandic Sagas / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: There is very little Narrative Filigree in the sagas. Consequently, any character introduced or piece of information given will sooner or later play a significant role.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_2a07adf3	type	Use Their Own Weapon Against Them
The Icelandic Sagas / int_2a07adf3	comment	Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: In The Saga of Gisli Sursson the two young sons of Vestein, seeking revenge for their father, approach Thorkel Sursson (who has never seen them) at an assembly in the guise of vagrants and entangle him in a conversation by flattering him. Berg Vesteinsson then pretends to admire Thorkel's sword and asks him if he may look at it, and Thorkel allows it. Once Berg has the sword in his hands, he draws it and lops off Thorkel's head.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_2c1871ee	comment	Shining City: Constantinople, called Miklagard ('great city') by the Norse, was considered the greatest city on Earth. A sizable colony of Norse mercenaries resided permanently in Byzantium.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_2dff6b95	type	Two Guys and a Girl
The Icelandic Sagas / int_2dff6b95	comment	Two Guys and a Girl: Often the follow-up of a My Girl Back Home situation (see above). By far the most famous instance is Laxdoela Saga. For some reason or other, this trope is also always the main plot device in any of the "Sagas of Poets", a subgroup of the Sagas of Icelanders, where the poet-protagonist will compete with another older or richer suitor for the hand of a beautiful woman, and usually lose. An example for this subgenre would be the Saga of Gunnlaugr Serpent-Tongue.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_32029ce3	type	Money Slap
The Icelandic Sagas / int_32029ce3	comment	Money Slap: In the Saga of Gisli Sursson Eyjolf, after failing once again to track Gisli in the wild, goes to Gisli's wife Aud and offers the three hundred marks of silver he has been paid in advance for bringing in Gisli's head, if she will reveal Gisli's whereabouts to him. He also promises her that she will not have to be present when her husband is killed, and that he will arrange a new marriage to a wealthy man for her. Aud acts like she is inclined to accept the deal and asks Eyjolf to count out the silver for her; this done, she asks Eyjolf whether she "might do as she wished" with this money, and Eyjolf gladly affirms this. Aud then fills the silver into a large purse, stands up and smashes the purse into Eyjolf's face so that "blood spurted all over him".
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_34f590c9	type	Off on a Technicality
The Icelandic Sagas / int_34f590c9	comment	Off on a Technicality / My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours: As Old Icelandic society did not have writing, all legal procedures were conducted by strictly formalized oral interactions. Consequently, there was a lot one could do wrong, and exploiting technical errors made by the enemies was an extremely common strategy. In any Courtroom Episode, villains will always try this, but neither will heroes pass up on a good opportunity.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_35f2850f	type	Magical Weapon
The Icelandic Sagas / int_35f2850f	comment	Magical Weapon: Gunnar in Njal's Saga has a magic atgeir that makes its wielder invincible. He took it from a pirate who was invincible until the atgeir got stuck in the boom of the ship. However, that's subverted later on: even though Gunnar has his halberd during his last stand, he can't hold his enemies off once his bowstring snaps.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_37c6c0f3	type	William Telling
The Icelandic Sagas / int_37c6c0f3	comment	William Telling: In the Orkneyinga saga, Harald Hardrada challenges the archer Hemingr to shoot a hazelnut off his younger brother Björn's head, which he does.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_38805691	type	Catch and Return
The Icelandic Sagas / int_38805691	comment	Catch and Return: Catching a spear from mid-air and throwing it back is the distinctive mark of the best of the saga heroes.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_39441318	type	Horny Vikings
The Icelandic Sagas / int_39441318	comment	Horny Vikings: In the original sense, where viking meant pirate. Interestingly, the mythification of the Vikings of old started as early as the Middle Ages, for example in such texts as Saga of the Jomsvikings, the legend of Ragnar Lodbrok and His Sons, Heimskringla and Egil's Saga. Many elements of the modern Viking stereotypes and Viking tropes are lifted from these sagas — although most certainly not horned helmets.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Icelandic Sagas / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: The protagonists of the sagas are expected to not fear death. Usually accompanying Famous Last Words below.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_3d17fea2	type	Draw Sword, Draw Blood
The Icelandic Sagas / int_3d17fea2	comment	Draw Sword, Draw Blood: Downplayed in Kormak's Saga. When Skeggi lends Kormak the famous sword Skofnung for Kormak's duel with Bersi, he tells him numerous rules he must follow in order to benefit from the sword's magic; among them that he must not carry the sword unless he is going for a fight, and to draw it only before a fight. As soon as he comes home, Kormak tries to draw Skofnung to show it to his mother, but is unable to remove it from its sheath despite considerable efforts. On the day of the duel, Kormak is able to draw the sword, but, having disregarded each and every of Skeggi's instructions, loses the duel.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_3e99481a	type	Deadly Distant Finale
The Icelandic Sagas / int_3e99481a	comment	Deadly Distant Finale: The "Tale of Thorstein Shiver", in which Thorstein Shiver tricks a demon with the help of King Olaf Tryggvason, ends with a laconic note that Thorstein died in battle defending King Olaf on his longship a few years later.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_41914bb3	type	Blade Below the Shoulder
The Icelandic Sagas / int_41914bb3	comment	Blade Below the Shoulder: In the Saga of Egil One-Hand and Asmund the Berserkerslayer, the young warrior Egil loses his right hand in combat with a giant, but later he earns the gratitude of a dwarf who heals his wound and then forges a special sword for him which has a socket instead of a hilt so it can be fixed on Egil's arm stump. With this device Egil can fight as before, and in fact becomes a feared swordsman.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_4252627f	type	Determined Homesteader
The Icelandic Sagas / int_4252627f	comment	Determined Homesteader: When not abroad adventuring, farming was the way of life of almost all Icelanders. Norse women worked hard — frequently harder than the men. Side note: While women in Norse society had certain rights that they typically did not have in medieval Christian societies (such as the right to divorce her husband or the right to inherit), by and large Norse society was sexist — women could, for example, not vote in the assembly or hold chieftaincies. In legal affairs, they were usually represented by male relatives. The idea was that, the man is "lord" outside the house, and the wife is "lord" inside the house. As such, she didn't have much influence in public. Still, she was the one with the "keys", and it was a socially accepted punishment to lock the husband out of the house should she find it necessary.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_438e4dd6	type	Demon of Human Origin
The Icelandic Sagas / int_438e4dd6	comment	Demon of Human Origin: In the "Tale of Thorstein Shiver", a short tale from the Book of Flatey (c. 1390), the Christian Thorstein encounters an imp from Hell who introduces himself as a certain Thorkel the Thin, a warrior of the pagan times who died in the famous Battle of Bravellir. All the same, the demon also relates in conversation that Sigurd and Starkad, two famous heroes of the pagan days, are tortured in Hell.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Icelandic Sagas / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Protagonists in fights use such moves as throwing clothes over their opponent, pulling his trousers down, yanking his head by the beard, throwing rocks, and don't hesitate to overpower the enemy by the number.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_4a1385f2	type	Dangerous Backswing
The Icelandic Sagas / int_4a1385f2	comment	Dangerous Backswing: In the Saga of Hrómund Gripsson, Hrómund's enemy Helgi wins all battles because of his mistress Lara, a shape-changing witch who assists her lover in battle casting spells while flying over the battlefield in the shape of a swan. In Hrómund's and Helgi's last confrontation, Helgi swings his sword at Hrómund while Lara soars overhead and accidentally cuts off Lara's leg, which kills her. Without her magic to protect Helgi, Hrómund can finally kill him.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
The Icelandic Sagas / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: While female characters in vital roles occur and there is a surprising variety of themes, there is a certain focus on men doing manly things, like fighting and displaying feats of strength. Though Njal's Saga is arguably a really effective Deconstruction. Many of the male characters react pathetically to perceived slights to their manly honour and it is quite clear that much of the bloodshed in the story could have been easily avoided if thicker skins and cooler heads prevailed. At one point in the story, a hard-won legal settlement breaks down because a man is sent a silk garment as a gift - it isn't clear if the sender even intended to insult him.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Icelandic Sagas / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: more than one saga ends with all the main protagonists dead. They might be avenged in the very end though.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Icelandic Sagas / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution : Because everyone knows that an endless cycle of murder and revenge is the most opropriate reaction for stealing some cheese.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_5aa8b4b6	type	Intrepid Merchant
The Icelandic Sagas / int_5aa8b4b6	comment	Intrepid Merchant: Because the pillaging vikings tend to capture our imagination most, it gets somewhat forgotten that Norse merchants of the same era operated a vast net of marine trade routes spanning Northern, Western and Eastern Europe. Icelanders themselves traded extensively with Norway and, on a lesser scale, with England, Scotland, Ireland and Denmark. However, the times being rough and the seas being a lawless place, the distinction between trade and piracy was fluid and sometimes a matter of situational choice.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
The Icelandic Sagas / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker: "Berserkir" show up mostly as stereotypical villains, but at least one saga, the Saga of Egil Skallagrímsson, focuses on protagonists who occasionally "go berserk" (Egil, his father Skalla-Grímr, and his grandfather Kveld-Úlfr).
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
The Icelandic Sagas / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: Most sagas have one or several. Of course, there were no literal courtrooms as Icelandic courts were open-air events. The conducting of lawsuits was one of the main tasks of the annual assemblies (þing), both the 13 local assemblies of Iceland (vorþing) and the Althing or general assembly (alþing).
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_607a8bd2	type	Beastly Bloodsports
The Icelandic Sagas / int_607a8bd2	comment	Beastly Bloodsports: "The Tale of Thorstein Staff-struck" starts with a horse-fight in which both Thord and Thorstein strike their opponent's horse with their horse-prods, and when finally Thord's horse runs off, Thord strikes at Thorstein in anger and wounds him on his forehead. The wound leads to a feud that costs the lives of three men.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Icelandic Sagas / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Killer-Hrapp, owned by more than one character. The "killer" part is a nickname.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_61b132a5	type	Sinister Schnoz
The Icelandic Sagas / int_61b132a5	comment	Sinister Schnoz: Several sagas (to wit, Oddr Snorrason's Saga of Olaf Tryggvason, Fagrskinna, Kristni saga, and The Greatest Saga of Olaf Tryggvason) record a stanza of Old Norse invective poetry supposedly composed around 1000 CE by the Icelander Stefnir Thorgilsson in scorn of the Danish jarl Sigvaldi, the latter supposedly a notorious traitor who was blamed for betraying, at different opportunities, kings Svein Forkbeard of Denmark and Olaf Tryggvason of Norway. The verse itself makes a point of not mentioning the name of its target, but instead speaks only of a "villain" (níðingr) whose nose is "curved down", the latter allegedly being a salient physical feature of Jarl Sigvaldi.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_61d054a0	type	Animal Stereotypes
The Icelandic Sagas / int_61d054a0	comment	Animal Stereotypes: Some Norse animal names are also first names. A saga character with such a name will frequently have the qualities associated with this animal: Someone called Ref (fox) will be clever and resourceful, characters called Mord (marten) are shrewd and devious, and people called Bjorn (bear) are bound to be fearless, formidable fighters.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
The Icelandic Sagas / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: The undead were much feared by the Norse, and they show up in the sagas quite frequently. The worst kind is the draugr, who has superhuman strength, can change sizes, move below the earth, often has various magical abilities including shapeshifting, and maliciously haunts the living — often physically attacking or killing them, but their mere presence alone (even if invisible) can cause diseases or madness in people and animals. They are living corpses with solid bodies that have to be killed a second time to lay them to rest, and anyone killed by draugr is likely to become one himself. In a nutshell, they are very much like vampires apart from the fact that they don't literally suck blood. Less aggressive types of ghosts are the haugbui ('barrow-dweller'), who has the same powers as the draugr but thankfully does not leave his gravemound or its immediate surroundings, and the aptrgangr ('revenant'), which seems to be a catch-all term for all kinds of the restless dead, aggressive or not.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
The Icelandic Sagas / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: It's either that or the Absurdly Sharp Blades, but limbs and heads get chopped off a little too easily to be credible note We don't actually know, and we don't want to find out. in the sagas. This is especially suspect as the home-produced weapons of Northern Europe were mediocre at best, and any weapon of quality had to be imported from England, France or Germany.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_6a58a8eb	comment	Draconic Humanoid: A few of the tales (for example, "The Tale of Styrbjorn") mention a monster called finngalkn, a gigantic creature with the head and shoulders of a man and the lower body of a dragon.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Icelandic Sagas / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: The idea that everything is preordained was commonplace. Ploys to prevent prophecies or prophetic dreams from coming true won't work.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
The Icelandic Sagas / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: The only thing scarier than a Viking warrior is a Viking warrior's wife.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Icelandic Sagas / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: The usual orientation: in most sagas the majority of the issues between the characters are not cases of simple good versus evil.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Icelandic Sagas / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: When colorful clothes are mentioned, it's a hint of what is about to happen for the Genre Savvy. Character wears blue: Character is intent on killing another one. Character wears red: Character will probably get killed soon. note This convention probably emerged so as to reveal the intentions of a character without "getting into his head," which is an impossibility in the saga style.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
The Icelandic Sagas / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Norse society knew two forms of duels: The strictly formalized hólmganga (duel), a form of Trial by Combat, and the less formalized einvígi (single combat). While the first to draw blood would be winner of a hólmganga, einvígi often continued until one of the fighters was incapacitated — or dead.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_7ae40f90	type	Manly Facial Hair
The Icelandic Sagas / int_7ae40f90	comment	Manly Facial Hair: The male beauty ideal of the Saga Age. Inability to grow a beard was considered a sad disfigurement of the the male appearance, as lack of beard was associated with effeminateness. Becomes a plot point in Njáls saga.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_7b047cb2	type	Legendary Weapon
The Icelandic Sagas / int_7b047cb2	comment	Legendary Weapon: Preparing for his duel with Bersi, and following the advice of his mother Dalla, Kormak of Kormak's Saga asks Skeggi of Midfjord to lend him Skofnung, the sword of the legendary Danish king Hrolf Kraki which Skeggi robbed from Hrolf's gravemound in his youth.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_7f8ec449	type	Bold Explorer
The Icelandic Sagas / int_7f8ec449	comment	Bold Explorer: The Vinland Sagas tell how Leif Ericson's explorations led him to become the first European known to have set foot on North America. Leif's father, Erik the Red, did not discover Greenland, but he was the first settler.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Icelandic Sagas / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: A father had the right to marry off his daughter without her consent. However, the sagas generally take a stand against forced marriage, as when a woman is married off without her consent, it will always lead to trouble.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_838343d6	type	Fairy Tale
The Icelandic Sagas / int_838343d6	comment	Fairy-Tale Sagas (Lygisögur). The Legendary Saga genre was so popular that, when writers ran out of ancient legends to retell, they invented new ones from scratch. This new (sub)genre of fantastical, freely-composed heroic sagas became known under the affectionate nickname lygisögur — "lie sagas" (though as a more elegant translation, the name "fairy tale sagas" has been offered). Structurally, they are often modelled on translated literature, i.e. Chivalric Sagas.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
The Icelandic Sagas / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: In the time of the sagas, slavery was customary over the whole of Northern Europe (and much of the rest). 'Thralls' (slaves) were to be found on any major Icelandic farm. Most Icelandic slaves were bought or kidnapped from Scotland and Ireland.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_8510bb62	type	Saved by the Church Bell
The Icelandic Sagas / int_8510bb62	comment	Saved by the Church Bell: In "The Tale of Thorstein Shiver" Thorstein, a follower of Norway's missionary king Olaf Tryggvason, enounters a demonic imp while using an outhouse late at night. Fearing for his life, Thorstein cleverly persuades the demon to imitate the screams of the damned in Hell. The screams alert King Olaf, who at once orders the bell of the local church to be rung, the sound of which makes the demon fall to the floor and disappear into the ground, thus saving Thorstein's life.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
The Icelandic Sagas / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The fabled Jómsvíkingar, scurvy scourge of the Baltic Sea. More historical, the Varangian Guard of Constantinople, one of the most distinguished elite units of the Byzantine Army, composed of Northmen, among them Icelanders.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_8acbc572	type	Fire and Brimstone Hell
The Icelandic Sagas / int_8acbc572	comment	Fire and Brimstone Hell: In the "Tale of Thorstein Shiver" from the Flateyjarbòk, the eponymous protagonist has a conversation with a demon who relates to him how the heroes of the pagan past are doing in Hell; namely, that Sigurd Fafnisbani fires the oven, and that Starkad the Old is up to his ankles in burning flames. When Thorstein remarks that these seem relatively mild punishments, the demon calmly clarifies that Sigurd is the firewood, and that Starkad's head is pointing downward.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_8ec35181	type	Cranky Neighbor
The Icelandic Sagas / int_8ec35181	comment	Cranky Neighbor: Many a feud is started by one of these.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
The Icelandic Sagas / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: A powerful force in any saga. Revenge was not understood to be only a matter of personal vindictiveness; in a pretty rough and violent world without police forces, public prosecutors, and religious teachings of love and forgiveness, taking revenge was also a requirement of keeping one's social prestige and credibility. As a victim of an injury, either getting legal compensation or self-administering revenge was necessary to hold up both your personal and your family's honor.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_97d575f9	type	Guardian Entity
The Icelandic Sagas / int_97d575f9	comment	Guardian Entity: The fylgjur (sometimes translated as 'fetches', literally 'followers') were spirits that supposedly accompanied all humans from birth to death on an invidual basis. Usually invisible, they could appear to "their" humans in dreams, often in animal shapes. Seeing your own fylgja while awake was a hint that you're about to die.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Icelandic Sagas / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Norse tended to believe in predestination, and premonitions of clairvoyants and prophetic dreams will always turn out to be true. More subtle foreshadowings are seemingly minute happenings that go unexplained by the narrative, but are to be understood as omens. For example, a character stumbling means that there is trouble ahead, and depending on the character's own Genre Savvy he/she may actually realize this.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
The Icelandic Sagas / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: The ancient Norse believed in sorcery (in Norse, seiðr), and it is treated as a fact in the sagas. Professing it, however, carried a disreputable stigma. While sorcery in itself was not punishable, any hostile act supposedly committed by magic was treated like a regular offence, and this might lead to a sorcerer's execution.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_a0ce7213	type	My Girl Back Home
The Icelandic Sagas / int_a0ce7213	comment	My Girl Back Home: As it was considered the default that the more ambitious young males of Iceland would go on at least one great trip abroad before marriage — be it as vikings, merchants, or warriors for hire — to gain experience, money, and fame (and by extension, social status), a lover, sweetheart of fiancé staying behind is a recurring motif in the sagas. When it comes up, it will usually lead to a Love Triangle. More often than not, the ending will be unhappy.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_a1841170	type	Generational Saga
The Icelandic Sagas / int_a1841170	comment	Generational Saga: The structure of most of the longer sagas, which in fact gave the format its name. The sagas, however, differ from the modern genre in that the themes of cultural conflict, adaptation and identity are absent, as Iceland was uninhabited before the Norse immigrants arrived.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_a3c6c2b7	type	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner
The Icelandic Sagas / int_a3c6c2b7	comment	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: A rare example where the injury comes before the quip: In Njals Saga, a band of Vikings aim to kill folk hero Gunnar Hámundarson, who killed one of their kinsmen. While scouting out his homestead, one of the men encounters him and is mortally wounded. When the posse assembles again, his companions ask if the afflicted man has seen their prey. His answer: "I'm not sure whether he's home, but his atgeir certainly is," and then dies.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
The Icelandic Sagas / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: With the one exception of the Fairytale Sagas, sagas of all genres claim to be based on facts. How serious this claim can be taken is the subject of much research and controversy, and probably varies considerably between individual sagas.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
The Icelandic Sagas / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Egill in Egils Saga, as well as several others collected in Sagas of Warrior-Poets. Norse culture did not see literary and fighting talent as having any incompatibility. Often they went together, as one of the most effective ways of making your name as a poet was to come up with witty insults for your enemies, who would often react with violence.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_adeb19b9	type	Outlaw
The Icelandic Sagas / int_adeb19b9	comment	Outlaw: Outlawry was the most severe punishment an Icelandic jury could dispense. Outlawry came in two degrees: Full outlawry was forever, lesser outlawry for three years. (There was also the still milder form of district banishment, where you were only forbidden to enter a certain district.) As killing an outlaw was impunishable by law, and it was technically forbidden to shelter an outlawnote Though as the sagas testify, this ban was often violated in secret., your best bet as an outlaw was to leave the country; if you could not or would not, you had to settle for a life of hiding and running. Outlaws appear in sagas both as heroes and as villains, with Gréttir Ámundarson and Gísli Súrsson (each from his own saga) as the most famous examples of heroic outlaws who escape their pursuers by cunning and perseverance for many years. Less noble-minded outlaws often are villains, as outlaws frequently would turn to robbery and violence to survive.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Icelandic Sagas / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Pithy, laconic lines of dialogue are greatly appreciated by the sagas, especially when they are witty.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Icelandic Sagas / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: A common folk belief, and often employed as a Foreshadowing. The dream will be symbolical; sometimes an expert must be consulted to interpret a dream.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
The Icelandic Sagas / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: An idea of Norse folk belief (tied to the belief in fate) was that you are born with a certain amount of luck, and some people have just more of it than others. Of course, you never quite know when it's going to be used up.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Icelandic Sagas / int_b4c406a6	comment	Death by Despair: Implied in the Saga of Gunnlaug Wormtongue: After Helga's husband Hrafn and her former fiancé Gunnlaug have killed each other in single-combat, she marries another man, Thorkel, "although she did not really love him", but she cannot stop thinking about Gunnlaug ("She could never get Gunnlaug out of her mind, even though he was dead.") Though Helga has several children with Thorkel, her "greatest pleasure" is to a unfold a magnificent English cloak which Gunnlaug gave her as a present at her wedding with Hrafn (implying that he had intended it to be his present for his own wedding with Helga), and then just look at it "for a long time". One evening, when Helga is sick from a disease, she lies in the main room with her head in Thorkel's lap, she has the cloak brought to her and spreads it out. After sitting up and looking at it for a while, she drops back dead into Thorkel's arms.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The Icelandic Sagas / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Many sagas incorporate stanzas of Old Norse poetry, which by default uses alliterative verse. Also used in poetic proverbs, as in "Bare is back without brother behind it". While recent translations usually try to keep the alliterative verse, older translations often switch to end rhyme.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
The Icelandic Sagas / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: Often created by Feuding Families.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
The Icelandic Sagas / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: As the concept of justice was inseparably linked to the concept of honor, a clan could be held liable for a misdeed one of his members committed. Thus, if the real culprit was out of reach for revenge, his brother, relative, or even a servant or slave might become the target.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
The Icelandic Sagas / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: The most obvious example is the key Icelandic social position of godi, which is so impossible to translate into a single English (or most other languages) word that most modern translations simply describe it in detail in the introduction or a footnote and then use it untranslated. Also atgeir, the weapon of many saga characters, is often translated as "halberd" despite the fact that nobody is certain whether that's what it actually was and no actual halberds dating from the saga era have ever been found. Finally, Old Norse poetry is notoriously difficult to translate into other languages thanks to its reliance on wordplay and complex metaphor. In particular, wordplay in poems based on people's names is often just explained in a footnote.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Icelandic Sagas / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Often following on the heels of My Girl Back Home. The most common form is Two Guys and a Girl, see below.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_b7e1dcc8	type	Empathic Weapon
The Icelandic Sagas / int_b7e1dcc8	comment	Empathic Weapon (suggested): When Kormak of Kormak's Saga asks Skeggi of Midfjord to lend him the famous sword Skofnung for his duel with Bersi, Skeggi is reluctant and, though he eventually gives Kormak the sword, warns him that he will find Skofnung "difficult to handle" because "Skofnung is slow and deliberate whereas you are rash and impatient." Kormak subsequently disregards all of the instructions Skeggi gave him for handling the sword, including an incident in which he tries in vain to unsheath Skofnung against Skeggi's injunction to only draw it before the fight, to which the sword reacts by "howling". In the duel with Bersi, Kormak cuts off the point of Bersi's sword with Skofnung, but the split-off sword-point hits Kormak's hand so it bleeds, which means Kormak has lost the duel. This could be accident, or maybe Skofnung (while proving itself superior to Bersi's sword) punished Kormak for his bad treatment.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_bb30961	type	Born Unlucky
The Icelandic Sagas / int_bb30961	comment	Born Unlucky: The natural counterpart to Born Lucky. Gréttir Ásmundarson is an example.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_bc79fe56	type	Army of Lawyers
The Icelandic Sagas / int_bc79fe56	comment	Armyof Lawyers: Inverted: nearly everyone is a lawyer, but to be successful you not only need a deep knowledge of the (unwritten) Icelandic law code, but in the absence of any kind of executive, also an army of followers to back you up.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_bd86c157	type	The High Middle Ages
The Icelandic Sagas / int_bd86c157	comment	Chivalric Sagas (Riddarasögur), also called Sagas of Knights or Sagas of Chivalry: A collective name for translations or rather, retellings of contemporary continental literature of the High Middle Ages: Chivalric Romances of King Arthur and his Knights, French chansons de geste, but also popular medieval versions of the defaults of classical legend and (pseudo-)history, such as The Trojan War, Alexander the Great, and Roman history.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_be8cb2da	type	Missing Episode
The Icelandic Sagas / int_be8cb2da	comment	Missing Episode: Not all sagas have survived the centuries. Some have missing parts, others are fragmentary, and of still others we only know the name. For example, a remark in Njáls Saga references an otherwise unknown "saga of King Brján" (i.e. Brian Boru of Ireland). Also, part of the manuscript of Heiðarvíga saga (Saga of the Heath-Slayings) was destroyed in the fire of Copenhagen 1728, and the existing text of the lost parts was reproduced by scholar Jón Grunnvíkingur from memory. A really tragic example is Gauks saga Trandilssonar. A manuscript of Njáls saga ends thus: "Please ask herra Grímr to have Gauks saga be written herafter. I have heard he has it." Regrettably enough, this request was in vain. And Gaukr Trandilsson was a historical person, mentioned in passing here and there.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_c0015c4c	type	Inn of No Return
The Icelandic Sagas / int_c0015c4c	comment	Inn of No Return: The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet: Crossing a sparsely populated forest on his journey to Sweden, Hallfred meets farmer Bjorn who straightaway invites him to stay with him for the night and behaves "most hospitable". In the night, Bjorn suddenly "thrust[s] a weapon into [Hallfred's] bed", but Hallfred, being suspicious of Bjorn, has already left his bed and drawn his sword, and thus kills Bjorn. Bjorn's wife and farmhands then try to frame Hallfred for murder, but eventually fail.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet: On his journey to Vastergotland in Sweden (which, unlike Norway, is still pagan), Hallfred is seized under false accusations of murdering a farmer, and after convening to judge him, the locals decide to offer the stranger as a sacrifice. However, Hallfred's innocence is revealed before the sentence is carried out.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_ccc0d531	comment	Settling the Frontier: The first part of any Icelandic "family saga" contains this. It usually begins with a farmer/chieftain in western Norway, finding several good reasons to migrate, and then the settling begins. Skallagrim, father of Egill, is a good case in point. So is Thorbjorn Sur, father of Gisli.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
The Icelandic Sagas / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: Generally one of the big topics of the sagas.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_dd92bf66	comment	Warrior Prince: Many sagas have episodes where Icelandic heroes on a continental trip rub shoulders with royalty, mostly kings of Norway. Because Asskicking Leads to Leadership was the rule among Norse aristocracy, every Norse king or earl was necessarily a Warrior Prince (though some more so than others).
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_e0222ff2	type	Buy Them Off
The Icelandic Sagas / int_e0222ff2	comment	Buy Them Off: Weregild, literally meaning man fee or man debt, was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with someone who killed a member of your family or household.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: Much of this is centered around clans.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_e360ae63	comment	Reforged Blade: In the Saga of Gísli Súrsson, Gísli Thorkelson and the slave Koll kill each other fighting over the ownership of the sword Greyside, which Gísli borrowed from Koll and never returned, and which he breaks by smasthing it on Koll's skull. Many years later Gísli's nephew Thorkel, who has inherited the pieces of Greyside, has them forged into a spearhead by a sorcerer, with the implication he intends the weapon to kill Vestein (who was having an affair with Thorkel's wife). Later an unknown attacker stabs Vestein with the spear and leaves it at the crime scene; Gísli Thorbjornsson, Vestein's brother-in-law and Thorkel's own brother, takes it and later uses it to murder Thorkel's brother-in-law Thorgrim in retaliation. There is no explanation given for why Thorkel chose to reforge the pieces of Greyside rather than to use any other weapon, but it is transparent that the sword's grim history predestined the spear made from its pieces to become a two-times murder weapon.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: Many characters and families appear in multiple sagas. For example, Snorri Godi, the protagonist of Eyrbyggja saga, is also a major supporting character in Laxdoela saga and Njáls saga.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: When the eponymous heroes of the Saga of Bósi and Herraud reach the realm of King Godmund with the purpose of stopping Siggeir's wedding with Herraud's bride Hleid, they learn that their arrival is expected and that the hall where the wedding is to take place is strongly guarded. Bósi and Herraud contrive to ambush and kill King Godmund's advisor Sigurd and his servant as they are going to the royal hall and then flay the bodies. Bósi then puts on Sigurd's clothes, and Bósi's magically skilled brother Smid puts the skin of Sigurd's face on Bósi, while he himself puts on the clothes and the face of Sigurd's servant in the same way. Posing as Sigurd and his servant, Bósi and Smid can easily get into the royal hall and aid Herraud in carrying off Hleid, and a lot of loot besides.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Icelandic Sagas / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Quite frequently violated.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
The Icelandic Sagas / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The view of the 13th and 14th century Icelanders on the viking expeditions of the past was decidedly ambivalent. Horror and moral contempt at these barbaric practices was mixed with pride in the adventurous endeavours of one's ancestors, bold and daring gentlemen of fortune that they were. As a result, many sagas dealing with viking episodes struggle noticeably with the problem of making protagonists who spend time as sea-raiders look heroic, not horrible. One way to do this is to cover viking expeditions only summarily, generously glossing over the questionable details; another way is to have the heroes get into a clash with other, more villainous vikings, in which the latter are soundly defeated. Thus, the good guys have not only opportunity to prove their bravery against villainous mooks who deserve no better, but also end up with a lot of loot, without the stigma of having it robbed from innocent people. Of course, they never think of giving it back. — The big exception to this rule is, of course, Egil's Saga, whose eponymous protagonist loots and kills unapologetically for his own enrichment.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_eff85ff1	comment	The Low Middle Ages: Many of the stories, specifically the Sagas of Icelanders (semi-historical, halfway realistic stories set c. 900-1030 AD) and the Legendary Sagas (heroic legends set in a mythic Dark Age Europe, faintly echoing real-life history from c. 400-900 AD).
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_f56d2c81	comment	Everyone Is Armed: The norm for adult, free males in Norse society was to always carry weapons when away from home. This shows in the sagas. Common weapons in the sagas are axes, short-swords and spears, while long swords, bows and 'halberds' note A frequently used translation of terms like atgeir, höggspjót and kesja; the exact look of these weapons is unclear (if they are historical fact at all). appear more rarely.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_f69d396a	comment	Walk on Water: The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet: When Hallfred is lying ill in the middle of a storm on the passage to Iceland, the people on the ship suddenly see a tall woman in armour following the ship. "She walked on the waves as if on land." Hallfred realizes the woman is his fylgja or guardian spirit, and has come to take her leave from him—meaning that he is about to die.
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The Icelandic Sagas / int_fdb6b8ad	comment	The Magnificent: Nick- or bynames are almost ubiquitous in the saga universe. "Wolf the Unwashed", a minor supporting character in Njal's Saga, is one of the odder examples.
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