Editing Njáls saga (section)

==Popular culture==
''Njáls saga'' has influenced popular culture in different ways across a variety of media. A number of modern novels draw inspiration from the saga's plot. These include, for example, Friðrik Ásmundsson Brekkan's novels ''Ulveungernes broder/Saga af Bróður Ylfing'' (1924/1929) and ''Drottningarkyn'' (1947), Dorothy James Roberts' ''Fire in the Ice'' (1961), [[Henry Treece]]'s ''The Burning of Njal'' (1964), Tim Severin's ''Viking-Trilogy'' (2005), [[Þórunn Erlu-Valdimarsdóttir]]'s crime novel ''Kalt er annars blóð'' (2007), Robert Jansson's ''Kári's Saga: A Novel of Viking Iceland'' (2008), Janni Lee Simner's ''Thief Eyes'' (2011), and [[Bjarni Harðarson]]'s ''Mörður'' (2014).<ref>Bjarni Harðarson, ''Mörður'' (Selfoss: Sæmundur, 2014).</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2019-02-23 |title=Database of medieval Icelandic saga literary adaptations |url=https://cwecrocker.com/databse-of-icelandic-saga-literary-adaptations/ |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=Christopher W. E. Crocker |language=en}}</ref> [[The Red Romance Book]], a collection of heroic tales and legends published in 1905 and lavishly illustrated by [[Henry Justice Ford]], includes three stories based on the saga: ''The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands'', ''The Death of Gunnar'', and ''Njal's Burning''. [[Robert E. Howard]]'s story "[[The Twilight of the Grey Gods|The Grey God Passes, or The Twilight of the Grey Gods]]" (1962) also draws inspiration from the saga.

There are also a number of poetic works inspired by ''Njáls saga''. These include [[Thomas Gray]]'s ''The Fatal Sisters'' (1768), [[Richard Hole]]'s ''The Tomb of Gunnar'' (1789), [[Jónas Hallgrímsson]]'s ''Gunnarshólmi'' (1838), [[Sigurður Breiðfjörð]]'s ''Rímur af Gunnari á Hlíðarenda'' (1860), [[Grímur Thomsen]]'s ''Gunnarsríma'' (1890) and his ''Íslenzkar konur frá söguöldinni'' (1895), and [[Helene von Engelhardt|Helen von Engelhardt]]'s ''Gunnar von Hlidarendi'' (1909). Dramatic works deriving from the saga's plot and characters include [[Gordon Bottomley]]'s ''The Riding to Lithend'' (1909), [[Jóhann Sigurjónsson]]'s ''Logneren/Lyga-Mörður'' (1917), [[Thit Jensen]]'s ''Nial den Vise'' (1934), and Sigurjón Jónsson's Þiðrandi - sem dísir drápu (1950). Embla Ýr Bárudóttir and Ingólfur Örn Björgvinsson's graphic novel adaptation of the saga, consisting of the four volumes ''Blóðregn'', ''Brennan'', ''Vetrarvíg'', and ''Hetjan'', was published in Iceland between 2003 and 2007.<ref name=":1" />

In terms of film, television, and radio, the [[Iceland]]ic short film called ''Brennu-Njálssaga'' (known by its [[English language|English]] title in [[Europe]] as ''The Saga of Burnt Njal'') was directed by [[Friðrik Þór Friðriksson]] and released 1981. It sarcastically depicted the burning of the book itself, not of the events described within it. The film is featured on the Icelandic DVD release of [[Angels of the Universe]]. Featured in the soundtrack is a song called "Brennu-Njálssaga," composed by the Icelandic [[New wave music|new wave]] band, [[Þeyr]] with the collaboration of [[Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson]]. This song later appeared in 1981 when the group released its single ''[[Iður til Fóta]]'' (in the cassette version only). The 1995 adventure film ''[[The Viking Sagas]]'' is inspired heavily by the saga, through it features an original plot. Episode 27 of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' is titled "Njorl's Saga". The "saga" in question is quite unrelated to any events in Njáls saga, despite the similarities between the names. In DreamWorks' animated series ''Dragons: Race to the Edge'' season 3 episode 3 a small excerpt from Njáls saga is chiseled into a sword and a wall in a cave using the [[Anglo-Saxon runes|Futhorc runic alphabet]]. The trope of a man trapped in a building and burned to death drives the Icelandic TV series [[Trapped (Icelandic TV series)|''Trapped'' (Ófærð)]]. [[BBC Radio 3]] broadcast ''The Saga of Burnt Njal'', an audio adaptation by [[Hattie Naylor]] based on a translation by Benjamin Danielsson and directed by Gemma Jenkins, on 24 October 2021,<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, the Saga of Burnt Njal |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010x6y}}</ref> with Justin Salinger as "Njal", [[Christine Kavanagh]] as "Bergthora", Justice Ritchie as "Gunnar", [[Lisa Hammond (actress)|Lisa Hammond]] as "Hattgerd", [[Jasmine Hyde]] as "Mord" and Salomé Gunnarsdottir as "The Voice of the Saga."

The saga's influence is also discernible in other aspects of popular culture. In numerous Shanghai magazines, the Chinese composer [[Nie Er]] went by the English name ''George Njal'', after a character in the saga.<ref name="Jones">Jones. Andrew F. [2001] (2001). Yellow Music - CL: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. [[Duke University Press]]. {{ISBN|0-8223-2694-9}} p. [https://archive.org/details/yellowmusicmedia0000jone/page/122 122].</ref> The Hallgerda Mons, a [[List of montes on Venus|mountain on Venus]], is named for Hallgerðr.<ref name="venus">{{cite web|title=Hallgerda Mons|url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/2332?__fsk=-1240839036|website=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature}}</ref>