Scandinavian Season Dramatised in three parts by DAVID WADE from a translation by MAGNUS MAGNUSSON and HERMAN PALSSON of The Burning of Njal.
With Bernard Hepton as Njal and narration by Norman Rodway and Barbara Jefford.
3: The Burning In the year 1000
Christianity comes to
Iceland. But the new faith does little to change the course of the blood feud, and now the sons of Njal seem doomed to turn on their father's favourite.
Cast for all three plays:
With Alice Arnold , Sam Bennett , Anna Cropper , Ken Cumberlidge , Joe Dunlop , Simon Linnell , 1 Joan Matheson , Danny Schiller , Ian Targett and Joan Walker.
Music by DAVID Chilton and NICK RUSSELL-PAVIER
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER