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  2. Echoes of Valhalla - Wikipedia

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    Echoes of Valhalla: The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas is a non-fiction book by Jón Karl Helgason. An English-language version, translated by Jane Appleton, was published by Reaktion Books in 2017. The books describes the legacy of Icelandic mythology and sagas and their impact on modern works.

  3. Edda - Wikipedia

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    "Edda" (/ ˈ ɛ d ə /; Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur) is an Old Norse term that has been applied by modern scholars to the collective of two Medieval Icelandic literary works: what is now known as the Prose Edda and an older collection of poems (without an original title) now known as the Poetic Edda.

  4. Sagas of Icelanders - Wikipedia

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    The sagas of Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur, modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈislɛndiŋkaˌsœːɣʏr̥]), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives primarily based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries ...

  5. Television in Iceland - Wikipedia

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    NFS, now a news service providing news for visir.is and television channels of 365; Skjár tveir, was meant to be an ad-free channel paid for by the viewers. It didn't go as planned and soon merged with Skjár einn. Stöð 1, launched 29 Oct 2010. Entertainment channel, free to air, non-subscription. Reaches 98% of all households in Iceland.

  6. Prose Edda - Wikipedia

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    The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda (Icelandic: Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse textbook written in Iceland during the early 13th century. The work is often considered to have been to some extent written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar, lawspeaker , and historian Snorri ...

  7. Icelandic literature - Wikipedia

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    Icelandic literature refers to literature written in Iceland or by Icelandic people. It is best known for the sagas written in medieval times, starting in the 13th century. . As Icelandic and Old Norse are almost the same, and because Icelandic works constitute most of Old Norse literature, Old Norse literature is often wrongly considered a subset of Icelandic literatu

  8. Category:Sagas of Icelanders - Wikipedia

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  9. Völundarkviða - Wikipedia

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    Vǫlundarkviða (Old Norse: 'The lay of Völund'; [1] modern Icelandic spelling: Völundarkviða) is one of the mythological poems of the Poetic Edda. The title is anglicized in various ways, including Völundarkvitha , Völundarkvidha , Völundarkvida , Volundarkvitha , Volundarkvidha and Volundarkvida .