The Schemers & Viga-Glum Fiction are left behind to navigate

are left behind to navigate the pitfalls of memory

Take the Big Picture

Richard served on the faculty at the Ontario College of Art for forty years

the scrawled epitaphs to lost friends on trees

The Schemers & Viga-Glum Fiction are left behind to navigateGeorge Johnston, renowned for his fine translations of Old Icelandic tales such as The Saga of Gisli and Thrand of Gotu, takes a look at two orally preserved stories from the middle of the ninth to the eleventh century. The first, The Saga of the Schemers, is unique in that the work is wholly imaginative and its mood is comic whereas most are weighted on the side of passion and tragedy. The second, The Saga of Viga Glum, leans more traditionally on