At the time when the Sagas were written, literature was *totally* different. There even wasn't any emotional message in it.
That's true, and btw in French litterature there has also been a period that was quite only about emotions (romantism), often only on reflexion, emotions and remberance, without "acting" story. But I agree with you that such books can be harsh to read, to connect to when you're not used to it or really don't like it.
Good news: I found an elegant and funny way to solve my father's day gift problem: I had two gift ideas between wich I couldn't split so I made a card showing him the two options inside so he'd choose himself; I'll go to get what he chose this week. What I did is to put the card in a box with stones in it to make it heavy and wrapped it as a present, so he had somethind to open. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/idea.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> Bad news: lovely doggie licked the icing on a side of the father's day cake while we weren't looking <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />
