Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//sagathing.podbean.com/mf/web/6yi3u9/Bauer_-_Trolls.jpg" alt="Bauer_-_Trolls.jpg" width="520" height="250"></p><br> <p style="text-align: left;">For our second episode of Saga Shorts, we've chosen the brilliant "Tale of Thorstein Bull's-leg" (Þorsteins Þáttr uxafóts). As one of the longer þættir, this one defies categorization. It tells the story of Thorstein Oddnyarson, a child abandoned at birth who grows up to be a hero in the court of King Olaf Tryggvason. Along the way, he'll find his parents, do battle with the undead, raid the home of a troll family, experience a miracle, almost drown in vomit, and fight a pagan bull. It's got everything you could want in a saga and more, all wrapped in a nice little Þáttr sized package.</p><br> <p style="text-align: left;">For this episode, we used George Clark's translation, "The Tale of Thorstein Bull's-Leg," in <em>The Complete Sagas of Icelanders,</em> Vol. 4, ed. Vidar Hrinsson (Reykjavik: Leifur Eiriksson Publishing, 1997), 340-54.</p><br> <p style="text-align: left;">We mention Elizabeth Ashman Rowe's "<em>Þorsteins þáttr uxafóts</em>, <em>Helga þáttr Þórissonar</em>, and the Conversion <em>þættir,</em>" <em>Scandinavian Studies 76, no. 4 (2004): 459-74.</em></p><br> <p><strong>Music Credits:</strong></p><br> <p>Intro: From <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVnf0Rl2PUA">“Death Awaits” by Billy Malmstrom</a></p><br> <p>Outro: From <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqjYOasI6YI">“Óðinn” by Krauka</a></p>
