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2. Sagas of Icelanders - Wikipedia

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   Nine Saga Studies: The Critical Interpretation of the Icelandic Sagas. Reykjavík: University of Iceland Press. ISBN 9-789-97954997-0. OCLC 855995457; Bampi, Massimiliano, Carolyne Larrington and Sif Rikhardsdottir (eds.) A Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre. Studies in Old Norse Literature 5. D. S. Brewer. Woodbridge, 2020; Falk ...

3. 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 ...

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. 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.

6. Heimskringla - Wikipedia

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   Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas.It was written in Old Norse in Iceland.While authorship of Heimskringla is nowhere attributed, some scholars assume it is written by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79–1241) c. 1230.

7. Grettis saga - Wikipedia

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   Grettis saga is considered one of the Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), which were written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and record stories of events that supposedly took place between the ninth and the eleventh centuries in Iceland. [1]