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The longest and most admired of the Icelandic sagas, a sweeping tale of friendship, law, blood feud, and tragic destiny set in the Iceland of the Viking age. Following the wise Njal and the warrior Gunnar through escalating cycles of vengeance, it offers a profound and unflinching portrait of a society bound by honor and torn apart by it.
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