The Icelandic Sagas
by W.A. Craigie
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In the midst of the Atlantic Ocean, far enough away from mainland Europe to have consistent outside influence from it early on, rests Iceland. By the year 900 the small island country is flourishing with poetry; by 1120 its prose writing has surpassed the amount of British literature. Icelandic Sagas preserves the oral history of this fascinating country..
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A short book written in 1913, but still interesting. Subjects included the reasons why the Icelanders composed so many sagas, the role of Icelandic poets in the courts of the Atlantic seaboard and the difference between the historical sagas and the fictional sagas with their mythological and romantic themes.
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 839.6 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Icelandic, Faroese literatures
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- PT7181 .C7 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Old Norse literature: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian Prose Sagas
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- English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 12
