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text 2019-07-18 01:07
Reading progress update: I've read 264 out of 782 pages.
The Sagas of Icelanders - Various Authors,Martin S. Regal,Ruth C. Ellison,Terry Gunnell,Keneva Kunz,Andrew Wawn,Anthony Maxwell,Katrina C. Attwood,Robert Kellogg,Bernard Scudder,George Clark,Jane Smiley Thorkel is to marry Sigrid. He'd best not kill her vibe, right?
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text 2019-07-17 17:28
Reading progress update: I've read 250 out of 782 pages.
The Sagas of Icelanders - Various Authors,Martin S. Regal,Ruth C. Ellison,Terry Gunnell,Keneva Kunz,Andrew Wawn,Anthony Maxwell,Katrina C. Attwood,Robert Kellogg,Bernard Scudder,George Clark,Jane Smiley

There's someone called Bard, mentioned only in passing. I am guessing that  the character in The Hobbit got his name from an Icelandic source.

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text 2019-07-17 12:25
Reading progress update: I've read 241 out of 782 pages.
The Sagas of Icelanders - Various Authors,Martin S. Regal,Ruth C. Ellison,Terry Gunnell,Keneva Kunz,Andrew Wawn,Anthony Maxwell,Katrina C. Attwood,Robert Kellogg,Bernard Scudder,George Clark,Jane Smiley

"Berg came to Borg and Finnbogi greeted him warmly..."

This kind of phrase delights me.

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text 2019-07-16 22:51
Reading progress update: I've read 231 out of 782 pages.
The Sagas of Icelanders - Various Authors,Martin S. Regal,Ruth C. Ellison,Terry Gunnell,Keneva Kunz,Andrew Wawn,Anthony Maxwell,Katrina C. Attwood,Robert Kellogg,Bernard Scudder,George Clark,Jane Smiley

The thief, Thorolf Sledgehammer, kept 20 "absolutely huge" balck cats. They were "touched by witchcraft."

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text 2019-07-16 17:26
Reading progress update: I've read 226 out of 782 pages.
The Sagas of Icelanders - Various Authors,Martin S. Regal,Ruth C. Ellison,Terry Gunnell,Keneva Kunz,Andrew Wawn,Anthony Maxwell,Katrina C. Attwood,Robert Kellogg,Bernard Scudder,George Clark,Jane Smiley

Murder; suicide, vengeance - this is familar saga plotting at last.

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