Full of dreams, strange prophecies, sexual slander, violent power struggles & fragile peace settlements, Njals Saga is a compelling chronicle of a 50-year blood feud. Written in the late 13th century, it is the most powerful & popular of the great Icelandic Family Sagas & teems with memorable & complex characters such as Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a great war Full of dreams, strange prophecies, sexual slander, violent power struggles & fragile peace settlements, Njals Saga is a compelling chronicle of a 50-year blood feud. Written in the late 13th century, it is the most powerful & popular of the great Icelandic Family Sagas & teems with memorable & complex characters such as Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a great warrior with an aversion to killing, the Iago-like Mord Valgardsson, & the wise & prescient Njal himself. Alongside the heroism & prowess there is also blood spilt in acts of cowardice & cruelty. Despite its distance from us in time & place, Njals Saga explores perennial human problems: from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the laws inability to curb passions to the terrible consequences when decent men & women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. There are many theories about the sagas authorship. The oldest idea, attested in the early 17th century, is that Sæmundr fróði wrote the work. Other suggested authors include Sæmundrs sons, Jón Loftsson, Snorri Sturluson, Einarr Gilsson, Brandr Jónsson & Þorvarðr Þórarinsson