The word saga is saturated with lofty, epic connotations, but etymologically it simply means “what is said” in Old Norse. Many Norse sagas, originally oral compositions, were written down centuries ...

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Thanks, then, to blessed Ole Bruhn, the Danish scholar from Arhus, who delivered one of the shortest but most effective papers to the gathering of the Eleventh Viking Congress in 1989. Some 35 of ...