Saga Stories #7: Bárðar Saga Snæfellsáss

[@808OnMyMind]

Matthew, thank you so much. I continue to await your wonderful saga stories. These certainly did not disappoint.

[@x.h.449]

You're for sure one of the best storytellers out there. And the way, these saga stories are captured is stunning. Thanks again for making these and to the whole team behind it

[@dannyvandenbergh8108]

These saga stories should be released as a dvd/blu-ray, they are so good ...

[@Anna.Bystrik]

We just returned from the most remarkable Icelandic vacation, which included, in particular, these very places! This series is a must, realistically braiding together the myth, the history, and the very present: neither judging nor excusing, neither trivializing nor weighting with terminology... and as an added bonus, the proper Icelandic pronunciation of a native speaker's :) narration guides through the diacritics of the names of humans, super-humans, locales ... A very nice touch at the end, a tasteful "ad" for the hotel nearby, mimicking experiences of tourists who explore the country and then come to a cozy place to ponder on their experiences... Thank you, Matthew and the team!

[@thorsgoldensSong]

FINALLY! We missed you, Dr. Roby! And now I have to re-visit Snæfellsnes...

[@sbroggie]

These videos are so well produced. I love them. The story telling is amazing and the videography is among the best on the internet. Thank you for making these.

[@Dirk77]

Thank you Reykjavik Grapevine!!! 🙏

[@ETRuT1]

Thanks Matthew, for further intriguing sagas. Thanks also to Art for superb camerawork. I always watch these stories at least twice, first for Matthew's wonderful storytelling, and then for Art's amazing pictures. More, please!

[@reginaromsey]

Hurrah! Another Saga! It is delightful to see you again and hear this new to me Saga! I love the end piece. Dr. Robi you look so very comfortable

[@hilarywest2830]

Another terrific story telling; thank you so much

[@alexandercarder2281]

Such a lovely gentle voice, I really enjoyed these stories

[@trojanpony]

Another superb video in the series. I was familiar with these stories already, but Matthew’s fantastic narration and Art’s creative videography really bring them to life in a fresh way. Bravo, team!

[@differentwave3693]

Always enjoyed this part of The Reykjavik Grapevine. Enjoyed it very much. Thank you.

[@Neal_Sporin]

Dear Dr. Roby, Thanks to you and your colleagues for making this great series! These stories are just terrific as is your enthusiastic and insightful telling of them. I discovered your series just this past weekend and I've already listened to each saga at least three times. Now I need more sagas!! I mean, please, can you please translate some more stories for your devoted followers? I visited Iceland several years ago and fell in love with the country and its arduous history. I read Independent People upon my return and it left me in awe of Icelanders and their struggles.

[@795mayo]

I’ve been waiting for another of these, beautifully captured saga stories. Just stunning!

[@lm3741]

Having travelled several times around Snæfellsnes and having visited all the sites you mentioned in these wonderful Saga Stories, the words have jumped off the page and into my imagination much more than before. Snæfellsnes is a magical place in Iceland. Thank you for bringing the sagas to life with your excellent descriptions (and the great camera work…assuming that is by Art). Takk fyrir.

[@fannytail3960]

That was really cool! More please and thank you.

[@damama4209]

Always enjoy the story's. That's a real cozy corner you in at the end. Love the fire place.

[@The1Hamp]

I've been waiting a long time for another saga. Hoorah!!!

[@marie-annemoors2133]

Again a interesting saga story. Thank you so much. I'm looking forward to the next one.

[@valentinavisnyei2387]

I've been waiting for this so much! Thanks a lot! I really like these Saga stories. You're a great storyteller

[@Marchmary9]

Thank you Matthew, I visited Iceland recently and I liked it very much. I am waiting for new sagas.

[@TheManglerPolishDeathMetal]

love these stories and Metthews storytelling

[@SP_3333]

The Church of the Trolls... Thank you, professor, for regaling us with the terrible beauty & history of the Norse Saga. Þakka þér kærlega fyrir!

[@tuckersbowtie]

This is marvelous. Thanks Matthew (and Art, and Valur)

[@vegassims7]

YEAH hes back!

[@joelyost8768]

Matthew these are wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing the sagas with us!

[@wcouch8]

This was crazy good! I love that it is on location!

[@caiotuliocosta3]

Dang, this is so great! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@ptournas]

Glad to see you back. Another excellent saga summary. Also another saga I haven't read. I thought my collection of sagas was pretty good but you're giving me a lot of new reading material. I love it! Keep up the great work 😀

[@scotverdin9401]

This is amazing!! Thank you so much!

[@RockyRacoon123]

I love your stories & your style! 👍👍❤️

[@TinaOdum]

I certainly couldn’t keep track of all of the names if I read this thank you for sharing.

[@diannbarbacci1031]

Thank you Matthew for the wonderful story telling of the Saga’s!

[@therealbettyswollocks]

This is fantastic. Hope you do many more of these!

[@randitollefsen5520]

AMAZING STORY.-First time I hear my king of Norway,King Harald Hårfagre described like here. In my childhoods Norwegian history books he was the king who assembled all of Norway to one kingdom in the year of ca.865 in the battle at Hafrsfjord.

[@kariknight6287]

Sagas wonderful. Scenery gorgeous.

[@alangillis8817]

Thank you Dr Roby and Art. A mountain or a cloud? In this series you have achieved a rare marriage of poetry and landscape.

[@luke7709]

That was awesome! Well done!

[@OneFootInIceland]

SO good to see you back Matthew! (& love your lopapeysa!) We've been saying for ages we're long overdue for one of your fabulous broadcasts, and although it's been a long wait it was well worth it, wonderful job as ever! We had a lovely visit to Snæfellsnes (& Hotel Búðir) in 2019, fantastic region, so much to enjoy. Unusual to see a log burner in Iceland, isn't it?

[@milesbliss3256]

Thank you. Heading to iceland in june 2024

[@CourtneySchwartz]

Wish I could go on a tour of saga sites with a storyteller like this. That would be amazing.

[@sallysolamen6886]

thank you..love the saga's

[@sallysassa]

Very interesting and well presented, thank you Matthew. I look forward to more sagas.

[@BillboBirsay]

Wonderful

[@denyse6666]

love it thank you so much

[@shorteststraw417]

I was hoping you would've tried your hand at lifting those stones at 5:15 Matthew! :) lovely video and my favorite series on KZbin.

[@Xantec]

these would make great audio books

[@joneyjolfsson4263]

Frábært! Kærar þakkir fyrir þessa dásamlegu yfirreið.

[@lilcorsam2242]

I am so excited for this

[@leandabee]

Yay you are back👏👏. Filming excellent as usual, scenery just speccy🇦🇺🥰. So, LLs are said as K?

[@thepiratecats801]

Loved it

[@dinat411]

Cool. Very interesting.

[@eliasg.thomas8423]

Awesome video as always, thank you! You might want to do proper subtitles, because the automatic ones butcher all Icelandic names, which is a real shame

[@ellenpa2000]

Thank you for the captivating stories! Your pronunciation of Icelandic names sounds very good to me but I am not an Icelander. I noticed the k sound at the end of the word Ennisfjall. Like Ennisfyak. Curious!

[@timitownsend5359]

Enjoyed this Saga Story a lot, as I have the others. One question: what are the two standing rocks we see in the third story?

[@sharon1775]

l really like this !

[@almurry8943]

Dr. Roby, since you pronounce the names of the places in Iceland so well, I assume that you also speak Icelandic. Are you Icelandic or are you in Iceland to study?

[@johnzuijdveld9585]

These are fascinating stories altho' I think they sometimes have dark undertones and I'm not sure of the messages they are meant to convey. . but I think they probably do. I'll be back! 👍🏻

[@boltyk1]

what's the music in the beginning?

[@dianes4858]

Love the Saga Stories! Just FYI, the CC spelling is off quite a bit, if that matters. Maybe not. 😁

[@trojanpony]

It seems the youtube bots don’t speak Icelandic. :)

[@TheReykjavikGrapevine]

Yes, sorry for that - it's automatic transcription from KZbin. We'll fix it in a few days.

[@zeeblats]

North Lancashire?

[@J-tron-ke2fn]

Not sure, why do you pronounce trœk when it should be trœtl in Icelandic?

[@OleOlson]

The content, videography, and production value are quite good on this. The only thing I would suggest is the narrator should try to slow down a bit, tell this like you're telling a story to people over a campfire, and try not to read off a page.

[@thorsgoldensSong]

It's a lot of content, maybe too much to slow down, but you could slow down the play-speed in KZbin.

[@malcolm20091000]

Do the trolls eat Christians? Seems they do in Norway, if that movie I saw was accurate.

[@jacquelinebrunder2384]

These people really saw these things. Modern man thinks he understands the world he lives in but doesn't. Where I am from we have stories of the Brownies who would come and do work in the night to make people's lives easier. Why would people make up such "rubbish"? Time and again myths are found to have a solid basis in reality. You could think about Brownies as us getting a technology that allows us to go back and help people or you can think about Brownies as real entities that do the same thing. The world is much more interesting with Brownies bring real entities than with them being us helping people with boring technology.