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Profound and intriguing, Grettir's Saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. It tells of the life and death of Grettir, a great rebel, individualist, and romantic hero viewed unromantically. Grettir spends his childhood violently defying authority: as a youth of sixteen he kills a man and is outlawed; all the rest of his life he devotes, with remarkable composure, to fighting more and more formidable enemies. He pits himself against bears, berserks, wraiths, trolls, and finally, it seems, the whole population of Iceland. Yet he is not a bloodthirsty killer, but only a man who is totally unwilling to compromise. As a result of his desire for freedom, he becomes increasingly isolated, although he wishes to live in society, and indeed can hardly bear solitude. Driven back and forth from Iceland to Norway, harried around Iceland, he continually flees subjection and confinement only to find a perilous freedom beset both by the external hazards of a new land and by the internal hazards of loneliness and pride. He escapes to freedom and finds destruction. He finally meets his death in his last refuge on the top of an unscalable island near the northern tip of Iceland.Grettir's Saga has several themes. One of them is the conflict between the Christian world and the survival of the pagan world, as sorcery or heroic pride; the other is the conflict between man's desire for individual freedom and the restrictive bond imposed by society.This translation is the first into English since 1914; it is based on a more accurate Icelandic text than the earlier translations, and, unlike them, is unexpurgated and in unarchaic English. The saga has an especial modern relevance - a recent translation into Czech reached the top of the best-seller list. The present volume includes genealogies, a study of the legal system, and a critical assessment of the work.… (plus d'informations)
Les sagas islandaises, composées aux XIème et XIIème siècles, sont un fleuron, trop méconnu en France, des lettres européennes médiévales. Qu’elles s’intéressent aux premiers colonisateurs de l’Islande ou à l’histoire des grands rois de Norvège, ou encore à détailler la chronique des XIème et XIIème siècles islandais, voire à rapporter les hauts faits légendaires du Nord et de la Germanie antiques, elles posent directement le problème de la création littéraire. Leur origine reste cependant l’objet de controverses : sont-elles nées d’une longue et vivante tradition orale ou, comme il semble plus vraisemblable, doivent-elles le jour à une sûre élaboration de tout un ensemble de données littéraires et artistiques apportées par l’Eglise ? Le cas du plus grand spécialiste du genre, Snorri Sturluson, peut autoriser à trancher le débat, tandis que les nombreuses survivances dont elles font état nous montrent comment travaillaient leurs auteurs, les sagnamenn, pour reconstituer le passé. Il en reste avant tout un art suprême fait de mesure, de laconisme et d’équilibre, et recouvrant une grandiose vision de la vie où l’homme, toujours averti de son sort, pris dans la sauvage dialectique de l’honneur, de la vengeance et du destin, entend réaliser la plus haute idée qu’il se fait de lui-même dans un climat austère où l’héroïsme le dispute à un sens épique de la condition humaine. A sept siècles de distance, les hommes et les femmes que mettent en scène les sagas demeurent étonnamment vivants et leur présence ne s’oublie pas.
Profound and intriguing, Grettir's Saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. It tells of the life and death of Grettir, a great rebel, individualist, and romantic hero viewed unromantically. Grettir spends his childhood violently defying authority: as a youth of sixteen he kills a man and is outlawed; all the rest of his life he devotes, with remarkable composure, to fighting more and more formidable enemies. He pits himself against bears, berserks, wraiths, trolls, and finally, it seems, the whole population of Iceland. Yet he is not a bloodthirsty killer, but only a man who is totally unwilling to compromise. As a result of his desire for freedom, he becomes increasingly isolated, although he wishes to live in society, and indeed can hardly bear solitude. Driven back and forth from Iceland to Norway, harried around Iceland, he continually flees subjection and confinement only to find a perilous freedom beset both by the external hazards of a new land and by the internal hazards of loneliness and pride. He escapes to freedom and finds destruction. He finally meets his death in his last refuge on the top of an unscalable island near the northern tip of Iceland.Grettir's Saga has several themes. One of them is the conflict between the Christian world and the survival of the pagan world, as sorcery or heroic pride; the other is the conflict between man's desire for individual freedom and the restrictive bond imposed by society.This translation is the first into English since 1914; it is based on a more accurate Icelandic text than the earlier translations, and, unlike them, is unexpurgated and in unarchaic English. The saga has an especial modern relevance - a recent translation into Czech reached the top of the best-seller list. The present volume includes genealogies, a study of the legal system, and a critical assessment of the work.
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