Egils saga, composed some eight hundred years ago to relate the
life and times of Egill Skallagrimsson, the Viking poet and
Icelander of the tenth century, is a major prose narrative thought
by many scholars to be written by Snorri Sturluson, the great
medieval historiographer of Iceland. Essential elements for
understanding Egils saga in its time and place include, among
others, the settlement of Iceland, the relationship between
Icelanders and Norwegian kings, and the Christianization of the
Norse world as pagan beliefs receded. The saga, one of the longest
and best-structured in the medieval Icelandic literary canon, is,
in the words of Torfi Tulinius, a story "of how people create an
image of their past to give meaning to what is happening in their
lives or of those that surround them."
In a close reading of the saga, Tulinius brings forth the
complex relationship between structure and meaning in the saga, as
well as hitherto unnoticed references to Scripture that suggest a
Christian interpretation of the main protagonist's life. A careful
analysis of Snorri Sturluson s life and times allows Torfi to
propose a context for a fuller perception of Egils saga as a great
work of art."
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