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Thread #97839 Message #1930685
Posted By: Cluin
08-Jan-07 - 05:34 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Magnus Magnusson (Jan 2007)
Subject: RE: Obit: Magnus Magnusson
Knew of him from his many translations of Icelandic sagas: Njal's Saga, Laxdaela Saga, King Harald's Saga, The Vinland Sagas, along with Hermann Pálsson. Read those many years ago in the Penguin Classics, bought at the Uni bookstore. Studying Geology and reading old sagas instead of my Science textbooks, quaffing beer, sipping Irish Mist, listening to Mike Oldfield and debating the merits of Tolkien. Ah, memories...