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Gisli Sursson's Saga

Anonymous

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1250
Originally in
Originally in Old Norse
Pages
Pages 90

Four men stand under a strip of turf lifted from the earth, ready to mix their blood in the soil and swear to avenge one another, and one of them steps back. Everything that follows comes out of that refusal.

he was the greatest champion—though he was not lucky in all things
Gisli Sursson's Saga, Anonymous

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