I’ve read the sagas for years, and I can feel the pulse in the prose—think of the cadence of a skald’s verse, the sharp beat of a horn. Turn that into a riff by taking a line that repeats and mapping it onto a power‑chord progression, then add a thunderous rhythm section to echo the stormy seas the story describes. If you give me a favorite stanza, I’ll help you sketch out the riff and keep the spirit of the tale intact.

Here’s a stanza that really sings to me: *The sky will split, the earth will shake, the fire will rise, the gods will cry.* The repeats give a great hook for a riff, and the thunder‑like imagery will let the guitar shout as if the old halls were shaking.