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 ====== Xenophon's Anabasis and Icelandic Sagas ======
 {{:2012:220px-egil_skallagrimsson_17c_manuscript.jpg?200 |Manuscript Drawing from Egil's Saga}}
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+==== Authored by Frank Redmond, 2012 ====
 One of my reading pleasures outside of the Hellenic realm are the Icelandic Sagas. Recently I read The Saga of the Greenlanders and I couldn't help but notice the narrative parallels between the saga and the Anabasis of Xenophon. Both are about adventure and exploit; both have sweeping narratives that move the reader from one action to the next. Having re-read Anabasis this winter, I have come to a greater appreciation of the use of bare and straightforward narrative. In the sagas as in Xenophon's Anabasis, one action might be only a sentence. X person has died. Or in the sagas, they have a penchant for saying and such and such is no longer is the saga. The character just disappears without much explanation. Anabasis is similar in that regard. I'm still exploring the parallels between the two texts.
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 It's not 100% the same, but there are certain resemblances in the narrative focus and flow.
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