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Medievalists.net’s Featured Book: The Tale of Thorstein Staff Struck

The Medievalists.net Monthly Book Selection for April is The Tale of Thorstein Staff Struck, edited and translated by Jesse Byock and Randall Gordon.

The Tale of Thorstein Staff Struck is a short saga set in Iceland’s East Fjords during the 10th-century Viking Age. Thorstein, a peaceful young man, is forced to live with the humiliating nickname “staff struck.” Even Thorstein’s father, an old Viking, looks down on his son as a coward. But Thorstein is no coward – he is only waiting for the right moment to take revenge.

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