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Sagas of Icelanders

Index Sagas of Icelanders

The Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), also known as family sagas, are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the 9th, 10th, and early 11th centuries, during the so-called Saga Age. [1]

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Íslenzk fornrit

Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, or The Old Icelandic Text Society is a text publication society.

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Ölkofra þáttr

Ölkofra þáttr (also known as Ölkofra saga), the "Tale of Ölkofri" or the "Tale of Ale-Hood", is a þáttr, a minor Old Norse prose genre related to the sagas of Icelanders.

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Þórðar saga hreðu

Þórðar saga hreðu is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Þorsteins saga hvíta

Þorsteins saga hvíta is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Þorsteins saga Síðu-Hallssonar

Þorsteins saga Síðu-Hallssonar is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Bandamanna saga

Bandamanna saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss

Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss (Old Norse pronunciation: ˈbɒːrðar saɣa ˈsnæːˌfɛlːsˌɒːsː) or Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss ok Gests is a late saga of the Icelanders with legendary elements.

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Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa

Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa (The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Hitardal People, Björn's saga) is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Droplaugarsona saga

Droplaugarsona saga is one of the Icelanders' sagas, probably written in the 13th century.

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Egil's Saga

Egil's Saga or Egill's saga (Egils saga) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egil Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald.

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Eyrbyggja saga

Eyrbyggja saga is one of the Icelanders' sagas; its title can be translated as The Saga of the People of Eyri. It was written by an anonymous writer, who describes a long-standing feud between Snorri Goði and Arnkel Goði, two strong chieftains within the Norse community that settled in Iceland.

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Family saga

The family saga is a genre of literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time.

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Færeyinga saga

The Færeyinga Saga, the saga of the Faroe Islands, is the story of how the Faroe Islanders were converted to Christianity and became a part of Norway.

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Fóstbrœðra saga

Fóstbrœðra saga or The Saga of the Sworn Brothers is one of the Icelanders' sagas.

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Finnboga saga ramma

Finnboga saga ramma is an Icelandic saga that recounts the life of Finnbogi hinn rammi.

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Flóamanna saga

Flóamanna saga ('the saga of the men of Flói'), also known as Þorgils saga Ørrabeinsstjúps ('the saga of Þorgils, foster-son of Ørrabeinn') is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Fljótsdæla saga

Fljótsdæla saga is one of the Icelandic sagas.

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Gísla saga

Gísla saga Súrssonar (the saga of Gísli Súrsson) is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Greenland saga

Grœnlendinga saga (spelled Grænlendinga saga in modern Icelandic and translated into English as the Saga of the Greenlanders) is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Grettis saga

Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar (also known as Grettla, Grettir's Saga or The Saga of Grettir the Strong) is one of the Icelanders' sagas.

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Gull-Þóris saga

Gull-Þóris saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Gunnars saga Keldugnúpsfífls

Gunnars saga Keldugnúpsfífls is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu

Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu er ormur or the Saga of Gunnlaugr Serpent-Tongue is one of the Icelanders' sagas.

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Hallfreðar saga

Hallfreðar saga vandræðaskálds (Old Norse pronunciation: ˈhalːfrɛðar ˈsaɣa ˈwandˌrɛːðaˌskalds) is one of the Icelanders' sagas.

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Harðar saga ok Hólmverja

Harðar saga ok Hólmverja or Harðar saga og Hólmverja is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Hænsa-Þóris saga

Hænsa-Þóris saga (Hœnsa-Þóris saga; Hænsna-Þóris saga; "The Saga of Hen-Thorir") is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Heiðarvíga saga

Heiðarvíga saga or The Story of the Heath-Slayings is one of the Icelanders' sagas.

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Hermann Pálsson

Hermann Pálsson (26 May 1921 – 11 August 2002) was an Icelandic language scholar and translator, "one of the most distinguished scholars of Icelandic studies of his generation".

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Hrafnkels saga

Hrafnkels saga or Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða is one of the Icelanders' sagas.

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Hrana saga hrings

Hrana saga hrings is one of the sagas of Icelanders, existing only in manuscripts from the nineteenth century.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Icelandic literature

Icelandic literature refers to literature written in Iceland or by Icelandic people.

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Jón Helgason (poet)

Jón Helgason (June 30, 1899 - January 19, 1986) was an Icelandic philologist and poet.

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Jesse Byock

Jesse Byock is Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies in the Scandinavian Section at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Kjalnesinga saga

Kjalnesinga saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Kormáks saga

Kormáks saga is one of the Icelanders' sagas.

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Króka-Refs saga

Króka-Refs saga or the Saga of Ref ('Fox') the Sly is one of the Icelanders' sagas.

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Laurentius Saga

Laurentius saga (modern Icelandic Lárentíus saga) is an Icelandic Saga, written in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, describing the life of Icelandic bishop Laurentius Kálfsson, thus covering the period 1267–1331.

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Laxdæla saga

Laxdæla saga; also Laxdœla saga (Old Norse pronunciation ˈlaksˌdøːla ˈsaɣa), Laxdoela saga, Laxdaela saga, or The Saga of the People of Laxárdalr) is one of the Icelanders' sagas. Written in the 13th century, it tells of people in the Breiðafjörður area of Iceland from the late 9th century to the early 11th century. The saga particularly focuses on a love triangle between Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir, Kjartan Ólafsson and Bolli Þorleiksson. Kjartan and Bolli grow up together as close friends but the love they both have for Guðrún causes enmity between them and, in the end, their deaths. Second only to Njáls saga in the number of medieval manuscripts preserved, Laxdæla saga remains popular and appreciated for its poetic beauty and pathetic sentiment.

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Ljósvetninga saga

Ljósvetninga saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Njáls saga

Njáls saga (modern Icelandic pronunciation) (also Njála, Brennu-Njáls saga or "The Story of Burnt Njáll") is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020.

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Orkney

Orkney (Orkneyjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of Great Britain.

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Paul Edwards (literary scholar)

Paul Geoffrey Edwards (31 July 1926 – 10 May 1992) was a wide-ranging literary scholar at the University of Edinburgh, appreciated for his "adventurous and unorthodox teaching".

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Reykdæla saga ok Víga-Skútu

Reykdæla saga ok Víga-Skútu or Reykdæla saga og Víga-Skútu is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Role theory

Role theory is a perspective in sociology and in social psychology that considers most of everyday activity to be the acting out of socially defined categories (e.g., mother, manager, teacher).

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Saga

Sagas are stories mostly about ancient Nordic and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyages, and migration to Iceland and of feuds between Icelandic families.

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Saga Age

The Saga Age is the period in Icelandic history during which the majority of the sagas of Icelanders are set.

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Saga of Erik the Red

Eiríks saga rauða or the Saga of Erik the Red is a saga, thought to have been composed before 1265, on the Norse exploration of North-America.

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Saga of Hávarður of Ísafjörður

The saga of Hávarður of Ísafjörður (Icelandic: Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings) is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Sigurður Nordal

Sigurður Nordal (14 September 1886 – 21 September 1974) was an Icelandic scholar, writer and ambassador.

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Skáld-Helga saga

Skáld-Helga saga (the saga of poet-Helgi) is a lost Íslendingasaga.

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Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.

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Svarfdæla saga

Svarfdæla saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Valla-Ljóts saga

Valla-Ljóts saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Vatnsdæla saga

Vatnsdœla saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Vápnfirðinga saga

Vápnfirðinga saga or Vopnfirðinga saga, named after Vopnafjörður, Iceland, is one of the sagas of Icelanders.

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Víga-Glúms saga

Víga-Glúms saga is one of the Sagas of Icelanders.

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Víglundar saga

Víglundar saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders, and is one of the latest of the Icelandic family sagas, dating to the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagas_of_Icelanders

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