An edition of The sagas of Icelanders (2000)

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An edition of The sagas of Icelanders (2000)

The sagas of Icelanders

a selection

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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 greatest literary treasures - as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare.

Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west - to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself.".

"This new Viking edition of The Sagas of Icelanders, commemorating the thousandth anniversary of Leif Eiriksson's historic voyage, is drawn from the first English translation of the entire corpus of the Sagas, together with the forty-nine connected tales - a five-volume set published by Leifur Eiriksson Publishing, Iceland. Thirty translators were selected for this monumental project, including leading international scholars from seven countries."--BOOK JACKET.

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Viking
Language
English
Pages
782

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Cover of: The sagas of Icelanders
The sagas of Icelanders: a selection
2000, Viking
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The sagas of Icelanders: a selection
2000, Viking
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Edition Notes

"The sagas and tales in this book are reprinted from the Complete sagas of Icelanders I-V, published 1997 by Leifur Eiriksson Publishing, Iceland, with minor alterations"--P. [lviii].

Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

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New York
Series
World of the sagas
Genre
Translations into English
Other Titles
Complete sagas of Icelanders, including 49 tales.

The Physical Object

Pagination
lxvi, 782 p.
Number of pages
782

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23244164M
ISBN 10
0670889903
LCCN
99044111
Library Thing
45271
Goodreads
904279

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