One of the best Icelandic Sagas I've ever read! But seriously, though this book took me forever to read, I drank in every word, enchanted by the poetry of it and entranced by the cold and the light. The translation was superb, and natural, by a Scottish translator, who used lots of our shared Norse words. This book came from a book swap but I think I'll be buying my own copy and maybe trying out some of Laxness's other works. I'm usually quite frivolous when it comes to books and if it takes me a while to get into something I often give up, but this books wasn't like that. I knew from page one it wasn't going to be easy, but I loved every word. Fantastic and highly recommended.