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2. Sagas of Icelanders - Wikipedia

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   Among the several literary reviews of the sagas is the Sagalitteraturen by Sigurður Nordal, which divides the sagas into five chronological groups (depending on when they were written not their subject matters) distinguished by the state of literary development: [5]

3. Saga - Wikipedia

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   Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.. The most famous saga-genre is the Íslendingasögur (sagas concerning Icelanders), which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between Icelandic families.

4. Chivalric sagas - Wikipedia

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   Starting in the thirteenth century with Norse translations of French chansons de geste and Latin romances and histories, the genre expanded in Iceland to indigenous creations in a similar style. While the riddarasögur were widely read in Iceland for many centuries they have traditionally been regarded as popular literature inferior in artistic ...

5. Kings' sagas - Wikipedia

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   They were composed during the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, primarily in Iceland, but with some written in Norway. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Kings' sagas frequently contain episodic stories known in scholarship as þættir , such as the Íslendingaþættir (about Icelanders), Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa , Hróa þáttr heimska , and ...

6. Gull-Þóris saga - Wikipedia

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   The saga takes place in the west of Iceland during the Settlement of Iceland in the second half of the ninth century. It tells the story of Þórir Oddsson (nicknamed Gull-Þórir, "Gold-Þórir"), a chieftain in Þorskafjörður, and his dispute with his neighbour Hallr. [1] Scholars have argued that the saga is the work of Sturla Þórðarson.

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