{"id":18160,"date":"2023-05-04T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18160"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:49:36","slug":"egils-saga-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18160","title":{"rendered":"Egil&#8217;s Saga: On the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Saga Stories #2: Egils Saga\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4KtddmStfY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In the video above<\/strong>, Dr. Matthew Roby discusses <em>Egil&#8217;s Saga<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18098\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18098\">which I reviewed<\/a> the other day), filming at some of the precise Icelandic sites where the action occurred.  I found it atmospheric and fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was also interested to note that the large blue book from which he reads Egil&#8217;s poem to his dead son is the very volume I&#8217;ve been reading myself (thanks to Dale Nelson&#8217;s generosity) from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/complete-sagas-Icelanders-including-tales\/dp\/9979929308\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2E5Y1N56I59SU&amp;keywords=complete+sagas+of+icelanders&amp;qid=1683240363&amp;sprefix=complete+sagas+of+icelanders%2Caps%2C154&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">The Complete Sagas of Icelanders<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video above, Dr. Matthew Roby discusses Egil&#8217;s Saga (which I reviewed the other day), filming at some of the precise Icelandic sites where the action occurred. I found it atmospheric and fascinating. I was also interested to note that the large blue book from which he reads Egil&#8217;s poem to his dead son &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Egil&#8217;s Saga: On the ground<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[4690,1265,1268],"class_list":["post-18160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-dr-matthew-roby","tag-iceland","tag-icelandic-sagas"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18162,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions\/18162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}