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Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland by Leifur Eiricksson
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Category: Classics
Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. Texts that were written in Iceland during this period include "Njal's Saga", "Egil's Saga", "The Vinland Sagas", as well as the "Comic Sagas and Tales" collected in this volume. "Comic Sagas and Tales" brings tog ...Show more
Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri by LEIFUR EIRICKSSON & QUINN, JUDY
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Category: Classics
Njal's Saga by Leifur Eiricksson
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Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control. It ...Show more
The Saga of Grettir the Strong by Leifur Eiricksson
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Category: Classics
Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age becoming eclipsed by Christianity and a more pastor ...Show more
The Vinland Sagas by Leifur Eiricksson
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Category: Classics
"The Saga of the Greenlanders" and "Eirik the Red's Saga" contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of G ...Show more
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