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04 | Saga Land | The story of Egil

04 | Saga Land | The story of Egil

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A deep dive into the past told by the people who lived through it. The Rewind podcast interrogates the events and characters that have shaped our world and revisits history through archives, interviews, and compelling storytelling.

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Broadcaster Richard Fidler and writer Kari Gislason continue
their travels across Iceland to tell the ancient Viking sagas;
tales of love, war and humanity. In this episode they follow the
steps of Egil. He was a killer, a ruthless opportunist but also
one of the greatest court poets of the Middle Ages.

He travelled far and wide through the Viking world in pursuit of
fame and wealth. And yet it was back at his family farm Borg á
Mýrum, in Iceland’s mid-west, that he faced his ultimate test,
and where he would compose his most moving verse.

A thousand years after Egil, Kári and Richard make the return
journey to Reykjavik, and receive some unexpected help in the
search for Kári’s bloodline.