Saga of Icelanders information

The sagas of Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur, modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈislɛndiŋkaˌsœːɣʏr̥]), also known as family sagas are a subgenre...

Saga of Icelanders may refer to: Sagas of Icelanders – The stories based on historical events from 9th, 10th, and 11th century Iceland. The saga of Icelanders...

form, often preserved as episodes about Icelanders in the kings' sagas. Like kings' sagas, when sagas of Icelanders quote verse, as they often do, it is...

known as Grettla, Grettir's Saga or The Saga of Grettir the Strong, is one of the Icelanders' sagas. It details the life of Grettir Ásmundarson, a bellicose...

Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingar) are an ethnic group and nation who are native to the island country of Iceland. They speak Icelandic, a North Germanic...

The Saga of Erik the Red, in Old Norse: Eiríks saga rauða (listen), is an Icelandic saga on the Norse exploration of North America. The original saga is...

A legendary saga or fornaldarsaga (literally, "story/history of the ancient era") is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders' sagas, takes place before...

American Saga Newly Translated And Interpreted (Barzun Press) ISBN 978-1-4067-7499-3 Hreinsson, Vidar (1997) The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (Leifur Eiriksson...

sagas of Icelanders. Like the Saga of Erik the Red, it is one of the two main sources on the Norse colonization of North America. The saga recounts events...

Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu (listen) or the Saga of Gunnlaugur Serpent-Tongue is one of the sagas of Icelanders. Composed at the end of the 13th century,...

half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. According to the sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually interpreted...

Ice.: [ˈfreisˌkɔːða] ) is one of the Icelanders' sagas. It tells of struggles between chieftains and farmers in the east of Iceland in the 10th century...

Sturluson in the 13th century; in several Sagas of Icelanders; in the short story "Sörla þáttr"; in the poetry of skalds; and into the modern age in Scandinavian...

and the Njáls saga (one of the Sagas of Icelanders), all written—or compiled—in the 13th century. They appear throughout the poetry of skalds, in a 14th-century...

The Saga Age (Icelandic: Söguöld [ˈsœːɣʏˌœlt]) is the period in Icelandic history during which the majority of the sagas of Icelanders are set. It runs...

Stefánsson, Western Icelander, Arctic explorer Þóra Magnúsdóttir, born 1100 in Norway, daughter of Magnus III of Norway, a direct descendant of Harald Fairhair...

Eyrbyggja saga (Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈœyrˌbyɡːjɑ ˈsɑɣɑ]; Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈeirˌpɪcːa ˈsaːɣa] ) is one of the Icelanders' sagas; its title...

the AGA saga. Successful writers of popular family sagas include Susan Howatch, R. F. Delderfield and Philippa Carr. The sagas of Icelanders – the medieval...

history in books referred to as sagas of Icelanders. In the early thirteenth century, the internal conflict known as the age of the Sturlungs weakened Iceland...