then I finished reading The Complete Sagas of Icelanders!
After 2,260 pages, I've unlocked the achievement of reading all five volumes of The Complete Sagas of Icelanders ! I cannot pass judgment or literary review on the Sagas as a whole. † There's just too much, and the corpus itself is too important historically to come at it as though one had just read a novel or non-fiction book. What I will do instead is (in very brief) tell you the main facets & merits of reading saga literature if you're so much of a hardcore NorsePlayer as to be compelled to read them all. Like Snorri Sturluson 's Heimskringla 's dominant historical pattern of acquisition, conflict, kingship, there's a general interpersonal narrative pattern that emerges with many of the sagas: offence, retribution, vengeance, resolution. Often feud & vendetta are the operative driving forces between these Settlement Era Icelanders' stories, which quickly amplify past whose sheep trespass to graze on another's land and escalate into the socie...