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funny and profound
an unapologetic and paradoxical affirmation of a bloody
finding fresh angles on the birdlife of seaside cliffs
the conflicts in a long marriage
Bird also playfully exploits the conventions of biography: fact and fiction blend
The Song Weigher by Egill Skallagrímsson Autumn Bulletin funny and profoundTranslated and introduced by Ian Crockatt with a Preface by Professor Roberta Frank Egill Skallagrmsson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth to thirteenth century Scandinavia as heroism in battle. Egill's saga details his life story as well as those of his immediate predecessors, from whom he inherited his massive build, his
