Author: Grayson Del Faro
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Saga Recap: The Saga of Bosi And Herrauður
One thing you should know about the Icelandic sagas is that some of them are not only sexually charged, they’re…
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Saga Recap: The Saga Of Grettir The Strong
This is the saga of Grettir, the grandson of the “bravest and nimblest one-legged man to ever live in Iceland.”…
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Saga Recap: The Saga Of Crooked Refur
This saga starts with a lazy asshole named Refur, which is the Icelandic word for fox. So you probably already…
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Saga Recap: The Tale of Þorsteinn Housebaby
This story starts with a dude called Þorsteinn Housebig. He is so huge that he can barely fit through any…
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RECAP: Saga Of Gísli Súrsson
There are more sex jokes in the sagas than you might guess, and neither jokes about butt-sex nor the literary…
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RECAP: The Tale of Shady Halli
This Old Icelandic story begins and ends with dick jokes, which is totally my type of story. It’s classified as…
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RECAP: Saga of Egill Skalla-Grímsson
This saga starts out with some big, hairy asshole named Kveld-Úlfur (“evening-wolf”), who may or may not be a werewolf….
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RECAP: The Dream of Star-Oddi
So some dude named Oddi, who is a good at astronomy but shitty at poetry, eats a bunch of psychedelic…
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The Saga of Hrómundur Gripsson
I’m gonna skip all the “son of blahblahblahson” bullshit and get straight to the juicy man-meat of this Saga. Okay?…
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RECAP: The Saga of Sigurgarður the Valiant
It’s purely coincidence that “frækna,” the Icelandic word for “valiant,” looks a bit like the English word for “freak” because…
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RECAP: Saga of Ragnar Shaggy-Britches
Listen up because I am about to recap the Saga on which your favorite, wildly inaccurate History Channel drama series,…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Americans
Listen up, fellow Americans. We need to talk about how you talk. Or we, rather, because I (often reluctantly) am…
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RECAP: The Tale of Dumbass-Hrói
Our summer Saga series has taken us to Norway and Sweden (and will again) but has largely skipped all things…
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Fjord Serenity Now! A Kayaking Day In Hvalfjörður
Kayaking has always been a favorite sport of mine because its effort-to-awesomeness ratio is incredibly low. Sure, pro kayakers can…
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RECAP: The Tale of Jökull Búason
I know we’re all pretty sick of trolls in 2016, but trolls were way funnier in 1260. So this recap…
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RECAP: Saga of the People of Kjalarnes
If you’ve ever stopped along Reykjavík’s waterfront to ogle the magnificent mountainess known as Esja, you’ve probably seen some little…
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RECAP: Möttuls Saga, the Saga of the Mantle
If you remember the portrait of Arthurian nobility painted by Erex, this Saga is about to fuck your shit right…
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RECAP: Saga of Eiríkur the Red
Let’s just get this out of the way upfront: forget what the history books told you because Columbus did not…
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RECAP: Saga Of Hrolf The Tramper
The Saga of this issue is Göngu-Hrolfs Saga, literally “Walking Hrolfur’s Saga” but typically translated as the Saga of Hrolfur…
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Answers Instead Of Questions
One trans Icelander’s experience with sexism and transition. The past few years have seen an explosion of international media coverage…
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The Giantess Speaks: Gerður Kristný Adapts Bloodhoof
Gerður Kristný Guðjónsdóttir, usually known more simply as Gerður Kristný, is one of Iceland’s most notable poets, well-known both at…
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Arts Festival ’16: Grapevine’s Quick ‘n’ Dirty Guide
by John Rogers and Grayson Del Faro
The Reykjavík Arts Festival is a breath of fresh summer air to the city’s cultural scene, bringing together a rich…
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RECAP: The Eddic Poetry Special
Although I’d like to think that every month in Iceland is National Poetry Month, the reality is that Iceland doesn’t…
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RECAP: Laxdæla Saga, The Allegedly Romantic One
If you ask the average native English speaker which of Shakespeare’s plays is their favorite, most will probably say ‘Romeo…
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Njáls Saga RECAP: The One Where They Burn That Motherfucker Down
We need to talk about Njáls Saga. Fully titled the Saga of Burned Njál, it is considered the absolute zenith…