The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald

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Read by: Walter Norris

Language: English

Length: 1 hour and 23 minutes

Publisher: Audioliterature

Release date: 2019-02-28

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This book is the strongest example among the Icelandic sagas of court culture and the culture of gift giving in the late Viking age. Composed at the end of the 13th century, it is preserved complete in a slightly younger manuscript.

Content:

Of Thorstein Egilson and his Kin,
Of Thorsteins Dream,
Of the Birth and Fostering of Helga the Fair,
Of Gunnlaug Worm-tongue and his Kin,
Of Raven and his Kin,
How Helga was vowed to Gunnlaug, and of Gunnlaug’s faring abroad,
Of Gunnlaug in the East and the West,
Of Gunnlaug in Ireland,
Of the Quarrel between Gunnlaug and Raven before the Swedish King,
How Raven came home to Iceland, and asked for Helga to Wife,
Of how Gunnlaug must needs abide away from Iceland,
Of Gunnlaug’s landing, and how he found Helga wedded to Raven,
Of the Holmgang at the Althing,
How Gunnlaug and Raven agreed to go East to Norway, to try the matter again,
How the two Foes met and fought at Dingness,
The News of the Fight brought to Iceland,
The Death of Helga the Fair.