Real phenomenon or just a literary trope?

On house-burning, murder, conjoined twins, and multiple personality disorder

Hello friendly people! Last night I finished the first draft of my fantasy novel, which means that, perhaps to your relief, I will stop exclusively reading Icelandic literature.

I have gone pretty far down the corpus at this point. I’ve read about fifteen of the best-known family sagas, the two best-known legendary sagas, the best-known romance, and now …