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Today I'm joined by a returning guest here on the podcast, and that is Professor John

Carl Helgeson, a professor of Icelandic and comparative cultural studies at the University

of Iceland. Professor Helgeson is the author of two particular books with relation to the Viking Age,

one titled Echoes of Valhalla, the afterlife of the Eddas and sagas, which we've

discussed here on the podcast in a previous episode, and a book pertaining to our discussion

today, the rewriting of Niala Saga, translation, and Icelandic Saga's. Professor Helgeson,

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