I knew of his art, but I didn’t know of his writing. I’m going to read a bunch of his stuff on Icelandic sagas and such for the Tolkien class. Apparrently, he was a big influence on T. Interesting….
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Run! Icelandic sagas! They will avalanche and plow you under. I guess with all the dark time they had, Icelanders wrote (and write) a lot ^_^
He’s an interesting guy, but I don’t like what I’ve seen of his saga translations – too much of that affectedly victorian-fairytale style of language, which doesn’t match the subject matter IMO. I read his ‘Waters Of The Wonderous Isles’ though, and loved some of the imagery – and the language worked better in that context. So. Um. Yeah.
I’ve not read his translations, but I’ve got a few of his stories. K, I haven’t read those yet either, but at least they’re sitting on my bookshelves. The ones that we have, as opposed to the ones yet to be built.
I’m interested in hearing what you think.