TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Laxness, Halldor.
AU  - Roughton, Philip (tr.)
TI  - WAYWARD HEROES
SN  - 9780914671091
U1  - F 
PY  - 2016////01/01
CY  - New York
PB  - Archipelago Books
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Violence
KW  - Sagas
KW  - Heroes
KW  - Brothers - Fiction.
KW  -  Violence -Fiction
KW  -  Heroes - Fiction.
KW  -  Laxness, Halldor
KW  - Icelandic writer
KW  - Roughton, Philip
KW  - translator of Icelandic literature
N1  -  	
A masterfully written tragicomedy about the oath-brothers Thorgeir and Thormod, inspired by the old Icelandic sagas Saga of the Sworn Brothers and Saga of Saint Olaf. The brothers fight for glory, raid for treasure and seduce women against the backdrop of a new cult of Christianity. But where the old sagas depict their heroes as glorious champions, Laxness does the opposite. As Thormod avenges Thorgeir's death, he demonstrates the senselessness of violence and the endlessly cyclical nature of obsession
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