EGIL'S SAGA 🗡️EPISODE 10 🗡️VIKING HISTORY 🗡️Audiobook with Nordic Dark Ambient Music
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- In this tenth and concluding episode of Egil's Saga (Chapters 82-92) we learn of Arinbjorn's death, Egil's final days and the fates of his children as well as the Christianization of Iceland. Reading from the 1893 translation by WC Green which is in the public domain. This story was first written down in Iceland in 1240 AD by "Anonymous" but many people believe it to be the work of Snorri Sturluson.
Narration, original music and black and white film (shot in Iceland and Norway) by me, Ulf Crow.
Egil wanted to go out with a bang. One of of the last giants. This last one was full of emotion but much more humor.
Thank you for telling these stories.
I'm gonna binge again from the beginning now.
You are very underrated and I will pass his along to everyone I know
Well done and thank you.
He really was! I wonder if his buried treasure will ever be found. Thank you so much Michael for the heartfelt words and support. More sagas to come.
Amazing….what a life….you do him and those he loved honor with your narration and music
Thank you so much for the kind words! It was an honor and joy to read his story aloud and I am very glad I got to share it with others who appreciate it. Tusen Takk!
Thank you very much for this amazing, long series. It is hard to imagine how much labour went into this.
It was a nice surprise after searching for a long time nearly all the English narrations seemed to be AI-generated.
Then found a promising one by an Icelandic lady on Bandcamp and bought it, but unfortunately later found out it was incomplete.
I'm curious @VIKINGSAGAS what is your native language/nationality? Your accent sounded a bit like Welsh sometimes but it's hard to tell (anyway it suited the narration very well). Look forward to your other work.
Thank you so much for this series: they have massively helped me with my university exam revision!!
Very glad indeed that I could help you Yasmin. Good luck on your exams!
Thank you so much for this incredible reading of Egil’s Saga!! Looking to more sagas!
You are very welcome! Any requests for sagas?
Thank you so much- helps the days at work go by easier
You are so welcome!
Fantastic telling of the saga!
I am a man of many words but struggle to find an appropriate response to this magnificent work. With this project you have joined a chain of transmission reaching back through W.C. Green through generations of tellers and schlolar to Snorri and Sæmundr, all the way back to Egil himself. Your performative reading and the ambient music are both superb and the saga itself is a treasure trove -perhaps the clearest and most important window into the semi-Pagan, semi-Christianised past of the Northern Lands. Even with my deeply retarded level of Icelandic I can half-read some of the primary texts and beginiing to sense how compressed and poetic the language can be. Egil's wordsmithing still resonates over a thousand years after its composition - i would strongly encourage anyone who wants to learn more about the Icelandic language NOT to be discouraged by claims that it is weirdly difficult, takes five years to become halfway proficient, and so on. ''Icelandic Online'' is a free resource from the Icelandic government and after less than a year with a few hours per week I can read enough to approach the poetry. It is well worth the effort. Once again, I can not praise you highly enough for opening up this world to English listeners. Truly outstanding. M.D.P.
Once again, thank you so much. It is heartfelt comments like these that truly mean something. Takk
Ho there. THANK YOU so much for this. I am realy dyslexic and if not for spell check this would look bad to you also. I love story's and this audiobook you made saved me years of reading. My reading is slow and bad. You mad it posable for me to listen to a book I just could not read on my own. Hope there wil be more like this. Thanks you again. You are awesome 👌 👏
Daniel, thank you so much for your comment. I am incredibly grateful to be able to help you enjoy this story in a way you couldn't before. It is for tales such as yours that I keep doing this. I have a family member with dyslexia and have read books out loud to him and now as I write this, I suspect this may be one of the reasons why I do this; for the shear joy of telling tales to others who might not be able to enjoy them otherwise. Once again, thank you for sharing this heartfelt comment.
Thank you for these
You are very welcome. Thank you for listening, enjoying and commenting Taco!
Amazing work.
Thank you Clinton!
This helps me so much man you don't understand. Thanks!
I am very glad to hear this. Thank you for sharing and please elaborate. My goal has always been to educate, entertain and transport the listener to an ancient time and place. Always glad to help.
Wight Spear-Stems surely have heard The Saga of Egil as sung like his son.
Awesome! Thanks for this. Will there be more sagas soon? Or was that the end of it my friend?
You are very welcome! Thank you for listening and watching. I am indeed working on the Saga of Gunnlaug Worm-tongue right now, which is in many ways a sequel to Egil's Saga. After that I plan to do Erik the Red's Saga and will be taking requests. Do you have any specific sagas you would like read by me?