Hanging out with Olvir Hump and Eyvind the Plagiarist
I want to have a friend named Olvir Hump. And I want to live in a world populated by Audun the Uninspired, Finn the Squinter, Thorvald the Overbearing, Bjorn the Landowner, and Eyvind the Plagiarist. And it would be cool to have a son who, after being robbed by the hired guns of a grasping monarch, has the bluff good humor to remark that "It’s good to have a king to share your money with."
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Labels: Egil's Saga, Icelandic sagas
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 12:10 AM
4 Comments:
Well, Kveldulf, just look around the newsroom and I bet you will find that all those people are sitting right around you.
And you can be Sigrid the Sarcastic.
I'll cleave them in twain with my spear and toss them back over my shoulder.
Or you could just edit them to death. Not quite as thrilling, I suppose.
Einulf the Editor at your service. When he cuts a sentence, it stays cut.
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