A great idea, to travel round Europe tracing the locations associated with the great epics of Europe - the Odyssey, the Kosovo Cycle, The Song of Roland, Siegfried, Beowulf and the Icelandic Sagas, I was interested in some of the places he visited, but the discussions about the sagas themselves washed on me. I found it very funny that early on the limits of the author's own epic journey were shown up when he was on a greek island he'd flown to for a few days away and he met some sailors who were retracing Odysseus' actual journey around the Med, taking months to make it to Ithaca rather than an EasyJet flight. Not exactly Patrick Leigh Fermor
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