Hi.
I must confess that i never been a great book reader. Even at university, i took the title without reading a whole book...and i studied Politics!
But, as we´re getting older, we must care health, and i started cycling...on a static-bike (i dont know if is correct in english...).
So, in my cycling sessions, sometimes i see something on tv, in others make newspaper´s puzzles...and when i´m bored with them, i read books: Some Tom Sharpe´s, books about inquisition, Crusaders...and now Scandinavian Sagas.
I discovered them last year when we went to Iceland in Easter.
Sagas are tales about ancient Scandinavian or German history. They are based in oral tradition and usually being wrote in the Middle Ages. They mix reality and fiction, and could be written in prose or verse.
I started reading Snorri Sturluson´s "Younger Edda", to learn a bit the world of the nordic myths and their verses, and after that, i´ve read "Bosi´s Saga", the first one i found. i must say that is not easy to find Sagas in spanish, but i found two of them!!!!!
"Bosi´s saga" is about Bosi and his friend´s Herrauðr´s adventures seeking a vulture´s egg inscribed with golden letters. Is a very-very-easy-to-read book; it has no more than 60 pages, and lots of explanations on each page. The particularity of this book is that they are three scenes with explicit sex, something strange on Middle Ages literature.
Now i´m with puzzles again; after that, Eirik the Red´s Saga and the Greenlanders Saga are waiting me.
