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Pages: 338
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-07 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Comic Sagas and Tales brings together the very finest Icelandic stories from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, a time of civil unrest and social upheav
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Language: en
Pages: 162
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Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-03-31 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern
The Sagas of the Icelanders
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Jane Smilely
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-02-24 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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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 great literary treasur
Morkinskinna
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Pages: 574
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-11 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Morkinskinna ("rotten parchment"), the first full-length chronicle of the kings of medieval Norway (1030-1157), forms the basis of the Icelandic chronicle tradi
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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