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'I woke up early with the birds - to hand up sturdy planks of words - to my speech-slave, my tongue, to build - echoing halls of praise, light-filled...' A Viking poet from Iceland sails around the North Sea, fighting, escaping, and delivering unforgivable insults in thunderous verse. Egil is the greatest of the Viking poets, and his adventures and poetry are recorded in one of the greatest Icelandic sagas. Peter Oswald performs his version written in English rhyming verse; it's in three parts, of twenty minutes each. He performed the first part at Shakespeare's Globe and York Minster - now he performs all three, from Egil's close shave at York with Erik Bloodaxe, to his mad preposterous end in the bogs of Iceland.

Cast/Performers

Peter Oswald