Summary: <div style="font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><img src="http://sagathing.podbean.com/mf/web/57mjyf/MotherandChild.jpg" style="height: 350px; width: 400px;" alt="MotherandChild.jpg"></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana;"><font size="4"><em><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The<br> Saga of Finnbogi the Strong</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">tells the tale of a farmer’s son who overcomes an ignoble<br> birth and rises to become one of Iceland's greatest men, or so the saga author<br> would have you believe. This obscure and rarely discussed 14<sup>th</sup><br> century saga is thought to have been written in response to <em>Vatnsdæla Saga</em>, where Finnbogi comes off<br> rather poorly. In his own saga, Finnbogi<br> proves to be an upright and noble figure who almost always does the right<br> thing. With superhuman strength, he’s<br> capable of dispatching an angry bull with his bare hands, snapping the spine of<br> an angry Norwegian bear, and coming out ahead in a seemingly endless feud with <em>Vatnsdæla Saga’s</em> brutish Jokul<br> Ingimundarsson. <i>Finnbogi’s<br> Saga</i> deserves more attention than it has gotten in the past. And<br> that's why you come to Saga Thing. </span></span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;"></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana;"><font size="4"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">References:</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">John Kennedy, Review of Bachman/Erlingsson Translation of <em>The Saga of Finnbogi the Strong, </em>in <em>Scandinavian Studies </em>64 (1992), 149.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=d-XiZO8V4qUC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=medieval+scandinavia+finnbogi+saga&source=bl&ots=bvOauhb1Mz&sig=O7_Jf74hpzddyxy7RKdvdkgYdYU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1muCxxdbKAhVJOj4KHcgmD08Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=medieval%20scandinavia%20finnbogi%20saga&f=false" title="">Phillip Pulsiano and Kirsten Wolf, <em>Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia</em> (1993), 194.</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: large;">Paul Schach, </span><i style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: large;">Icelandic Sagas </i><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: large;">(Boston, 1980), 155-56.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana;"><font size="4"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Music for the brief summary: "Nerves" by Kevin MacLeod (incopetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0</span></span></font></p>
