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For our second episode of Saga Shorts, we've chosen the brilliant "Tale of Thorstein Bull's-leg" (\xdeorsteins \xde\xe1ttr uxaf\xf3ts).\xa0 As one of the longer\xa0\xfe\xe6ttir, this one defies categorization. It tells the story of Thorstein Oddnyarson, a child abandoned at birth who grows up to be a hero in the court of King Olaf Tryggvason.\xa0 Along the way, he'll find his parents, do battle with the undead, raid the home of a troll family, experience a miracle, almost drown in vomit, and fight a pagan bull.\xa0 It's got everything you could want in a saga and more, all wrapped in a nice little\xa0\xde\xe1ttr sized package.\nFor this episode, we used George Clark's translation, "The Tale of Thorstein Bull's-Leg," in\xa0The Complete Sagas of Icelanders,\xa0Vol. 4, ed. Vidar Hrinsson (Reykjavik: Leifur Eiriksson Publishing, 1997), 340-54.\nWe mention Elizabeth Ashman Rowe's "\xdeorsteins\xa0\xfe\xe1ttr uxaf\xf3ts, Helga \xfe\xe1ttr \xde\xf3rissonar, and the Conversion \xfe\xe6ttir,"\xa0Scandinavian Studies 76, no. 4 (2004): 459-74.\nMusic Credits:\nIntro: From\xa0\u201cDeath Awaits\u201d by Billy Malmstrom\nOutro: From\xa0\u201c\xd3\xf0inn\u201d by Krauka