Response to The Saga of Gunnlaug Sperent-Tongue

I was surprised to find, at the beginning of this saga, an introduction by a narrator--the very element we found missing in our discussions last class. It certainly helped me to have someone give me the outline of the story upfront and highlight the important events to note and the moral significance the story attempts to portray.

When I began the actual saga, I had to ask, how many Thorsteins are we going to meet in the course of this book?! There appears to be multiple Thorsteins in every saga. Another thing I found interesting at the beginning of the tale was that they made note that Thorstein's wife Jofrid was only 18 when he married her, yet she was already a widow with a child. I guess this make sense seeing as back in those days they married early. I liked this little glimpse into the ways of their people, because sometimes I felt in the last stories that they acted so much like us their agespan and the time and setting of major events in their lives would mirror ours as well. Apparently not.