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The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection Hardcover - 2000

by Preface by Jane Smiley; Introduction by Robert Kellogg


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Commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Leif Eriksson's pioneering voyage to the New World, Viking will proudly publish a major new translation of the very greatest of the Icelanders' Sagas. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures -- as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set during the Viking Age, these epic stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norsemen and Norsewomen who first settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west -- to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America.

The Sagas of Icelanders collects a dozen of the most outstanding Sagas, including the celebrated "Vinland Sagas", which contain the oldest descriptions of the North American continent. Much more than rousing adventure narratives, though, the Sagas introduce modern readers to a now-vanished world separated from ours by a thousand years -- a richly imagined and psychologically complex world, comparable in realistic effect with the novelistic genius of Austen or Dickens.

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  • Title The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection
  • Author Preface by Jane Smiley; Introduction by Robert Kellogg
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 782
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking Books, New York
  • Date 2000-04-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780670889907 / 0670889903
  • Weight 3.6 lbs (1.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.49 x 6.56 x 1.94 in (24.10 x 16.66 x 4.93 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sagas, Old Norse literature - Translations into
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99044111
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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