Icelanders' sagas
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The Icelanders' sagas (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur)—many of which are also known as family sagas—are prose histories describing mostly events that took place in Iceland in the 10th and early 11th centuries. They are the best known specimen of Icelandic literature.
The authors of the Icelanders' sagas are unknown. One, Egils saga, is believed by many modern scholars to have been written by Snorri Sturluson, a descendant of its hero, but this is not certain.
The Icelanders' sagas are a literary phenomenon from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. They are focused on history, especially genealogical and family history. They reflect the struggle and conflict that arose within the societies of the second and third generations of Icelandic settlers.
The standard modern edition of Icelandic sagas is known as Íslenzk Fornrit.
List of Icelanders' sagas:
- Bandamanna saga
- Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss
- Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa
- Brennu-Njáls saga; considered by some the greatest of Icelandic prose sagas; many translations are available and it is available on the Internet.
- Droplaugarsona saga
- Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar
- Eiríks saga rauða
- Eyrbyggja saga
- Færeyinga saga
- Finnboga saga ramma
- Fljótsdæla saga
- Flóamanna saga
- Fóstbrœðra saga (two versions)
- Gísla saga Súrssonar, (two versions) of an outlaw poet.
- Grettis saga
- Grœnlendinga saga
- Gull-Þóris saga
- Gunnars saga Keldugnúpsfífls
- Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu
- Hallfreðar saga (two versions)
- Harðar saga ok Hólmverja
- Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings
- Heiðarvíga saga
- Hrafnkels saga
- Hrana saga hrings
- Hœnsa-Þóris saga
- Kjalnesinga saga
- Kormáks saga
- Króka-Refs saga
- Laxdæla saga
- Ljósvetninga saga (three versions)
- Reykdœla saga ok Víga-Skútu
- Svarfdœla saga
- Valla-Ljóts saga
- Vatnsdœla saga
- Víga-Glúms saga
- Víglundar saga
- Vápnfirðinga saga
- Þorsteins saga hvíta
- Þorsteins saga Síðu-Hallssonar
- Þórðar saga hreðu
- Ölkofra saga
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Arnold, Martin. The Post-Classical Icelandic Family Saga. The Edwin Mellen Press. United Kingdom. 2003
- Karlsson, Gunnar. The History of Iceland. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2000.
- Liestol, Knut. The Origin of the Icelandic Family Sagas. Harvard University Press. Norway. 1930.
- Miller, William Ian (1990). Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Ornolfur, Thorsson. The Sagas of Icelanders. Leifur Eiriksson Publishing Ltd. Great Britain. 1997
- Thorsson, Örnólfur, et al. :The Sagas of the Icelanders: a selection (Penguin Classics, 2000).
[edit] External links
- Íslendinga sögur in Old Norse
- Sagnanet Photographs of some of the original manuscripts
