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Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Margaret Clunies Ross
Categories: Sagas
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-16 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving writte
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
Sagas of Warrior-poets
Language: en
Pages: 430
Authors: Leifur Eiricksson
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-29 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Kormak's Saga, The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue, The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Hitardal People, Viglund's Saga Se
Egil, the Viking Poet
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Laurence de Looze
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-28 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls,
The Poetic Genesis of Old Icelandic Literature
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Mikael Males
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-16 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c. 1150–1350. It addresses the apparent paradox that an extremely cons