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Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Heather O'Donoghue
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-28 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world's greatest litera
The Icelandic Family Saga
Language: en
Pages: 338
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
Laxdaela Saga
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Magnus Magnusson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1969 - Publisher: Penguin

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Written around 1245 by an unknown author, the Laxdaela Saga is an extraordinary tale of conflicting kinships and passionate love, and one of the most compelling
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors:
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-03-31 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern