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b'The\\nSaga of Finnbogi the Strong\\xa0tells the tale of a farmer\\u2019s son who overcomes an ignoble\\nbirth and rises to become one of Iceland\'s greatest men, or so the saga author\\nwould have you believe. \\xa0This obscure and rarely discussed 14th\\ncentury saga is thought to have been written in response to Vatnsd\\xe6la Saga, where Finnbogi comes off\\nrather poorly.\\xa0 In his own saga, Finnbogi\\nproves to be an upright and noble figure who almost always does the right\\nthing.\\xa0 With superhuman strength, he\\u2019s\\ncapable of dispatching an angry bull with his bare hands, snapping the spine of\\nan angry Norwegian bear, and coming out ahead in a seemingly endless feud with Vatnsd\\xe6la Saga\\u2019s brutish Jokul\\nIngimundarsson.\\xa0 \\xa0Finnbogi\\u2019s\\nSaga deserves more attention than it has gotten in the past. \\xa0And\\nthat\'s why you come to Saga Thing. \\xa0 \\xa0References:John Kennedy, Review of Bachman/Erlingsson Translation of The Saga of Finnbogi the Strong, in Scandinavian Studies 64 (1992), 149.Phillip Pulsiano and Kirsten Wolf, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia\\xa0(1993), 194.Paul Schach,\\xa0Icelandic Sagas\\xa0(Boston, 1980), 155-56.Music for the brief summary: "Nerves" by Kevin MacLeod (incopetech.com). \\xa0Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0'