{"id":1384,"date":"2011-01-06T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2011-01-06T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:13:49","slug":"tattuinardoela-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Tatt\u00fa\u00edn\u00e1rd\u0153la saga"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m on this Icelandic kick right now—I recently read the Kalevala<\/a> for the first time, and my to-read stack is currently topped by the Saga of the Volsungs<\/a><\/em>, Viking Age Iceland<\/a><\/em>, and The Sagas of Icelanders<\/a><\/em>. So imagine my delight when a friend linked me to the Tatt\u00fa\u00edn\u00e1rd\u0153la saga<\/a>: “What If Star Wars Were an Icelandic Saga? In Old Norse with English translations.” <\/p>\n

\nOn the Daudastjarna, there were many men who marveled at Tsiubakka\u2019s height and broad build. And when they had come to the dungeon, a Stormtrooper asked, \u201cWhere are you taking this giant of a man?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the dungeon,\u201d said L\u00fakr, \u201cHe was on the ship that Veidr captured.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Stormtrooper said, \u201cI have not heard tell that any man was found on that ship, and we should tell Tarkinn, Jarl of St\u00f3rmof, about this first.\u201d<\/p>\n

But when this soldier turned around and went to bear these tidings to Tarkinn, Hani the Duelist threw his axe and felled him. Two Stormtroopers saw Hani attack the man, and they each took an axe in hand and went to his aid. L\u00fakr fought them off with great agility, and struck at them with the strength and fearlessness of a lion. Soon the Stormtroopers had been killed by Luke, for they had only short-shafted axes, but L\u00fakr struck hard and fast with the spear of V\u00edga-\u00d3b\u00edvan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is so completely excellent. The best part is that it really is<\/em> also written out in Old Norse. I left a comment for the author saying “This is possibly the best thing that the Internet has ever given us,” and I meant it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m on this Icelandic kick right now—I recently read the Kalevala for the first time, and my to-read stack is currently topped by the Saga of the Volsungs, Viking Age Iceland, and The Sagas of Icelanders. So imagine my delight when a friend linked me to the Tatt\u00fa\u00edn\u00e1rd\u0153la saga: “What If Star Wars Were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}