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The Sagas of the Icelanders
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Jane Smilely
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-02-24 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasur
The Icelandic Family Saga
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Theodore Murdock Andersson
Categories: Old Norse literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1967 - Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press

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An attempt to come to grips with the family saga as formal narrative.
Feud in the Icelandic Saga
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Jesse L. Byock
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-04-28 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society—the channeling of violence into a
The Icelandic Saga
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Peter Hallberg
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1962-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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In this stimulating and reliable introduction to the Icelandic saga, Peter Hallberg correctly designates the genre as "Scandinavia's sole, collective original c
The Origin of the Icelandic Family Sagas
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Knut Liestøl
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 1974 - Publisher: Greenwood

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