I’d never before gotten any books from Iceland but today a package arrived from Reykjavik containing a set of The Complete Sagas Of Icelanders — the first more or less complete English translation of all the Icelandic Sagas along with forty-nine related short stories.

There are five volumes in this set, bound in leather dark-blue like the sea, stamped in dragon-hoarded gold and smythe-sewn.

I only ordered them about a week ago, which just goes to show that those longships can still make time.

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