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    The sagas of Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur, modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈislɛndiŋkaˌsœːɣʏr̥]), also known as family sagas are a subgenre...
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  • form, often preserved as episodes about Icelanders in the kings' sagas. Like kings' sagas, when sagas of Icelanders quote verse, as they often do, it is...
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  • Saga of Icelanders may refer to: Sagas of Icelanders – The stories based on historical events from 9th, 10th, and 11th century Iceland. The saga of Icelanders...
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    Keneva, The Sagas of the Icelanders, London: Penguin, 2005, ISBN 0-14-100003-1. Magnusson, Magnus; Palsson, Hermann, The Vinland Sagas, London: Penguin...
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    Leif Erikson (category Explorers of Canada)
    half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. According to the sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually interpreted...
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    Salem Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-89356-430-8. "The Saga of the Greenlanders". The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection. Translated by Kunz, Keneva. London:...
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    awareness of the Sagas of Icelanders tradition by making references to other sagas and borrowing themes from the larger cultural milieu of the Germanic...
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    Sturluson in the 13th century; in several Sagas of Icelanders; in the short story "Sörla þáttr"; in the poetry of skalds; and into the modern age in Scandinavian...
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    variants from Hauksbók. Kunz, Keneva (trans.), "Erik the Red's Saga", in The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection (London: Penguin, 2001), pp. 653–74. Apparently...
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    (2004) [1965]. The Vinland Sagas. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-044154-9. Örnólfur Thorsson (ed.) (2001). The Sagas of Icelanders. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-100003-1...
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    little since the 13th century. Because of this modern readers can understand the Icelanders' sagas. The sagas tell of events in Iceland in the 10th and early...
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  • Dvalinn (section Sagas)
    Retrieved May 11, 2013. Burlew, Rich. "1016 King of Indecision". The Order of the Stick. The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection (London: Penguin, 2001) v t e...
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    and the Njáls saga (one of the Sagas of Icelanders), all written—or compiled—in the 13th century. They appear throughout the poetry of skalds, in a 14th-century...
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    history in books referred to as sagas of Icelanders. In the early thirteenth century, the internal conflict known as the age of the Sturlungs weakened Iceland...
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    developed of the sagas of Icelanders. It is often considered the peak of the saga tradition. Njáls saga, like the other sagas of Icelanders, is anonymous...
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    Kellogg, Robert (trans.) (1997). The Saga of Hord and the People of Holm, in The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Viðar Hreinsson, gen. ed. Leifur Eiríksson...
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    pp. 145-177 Jane Smiley, “The Sagas of the Greenlanders and The Saga of Eirik the Red” in The Sagas of the Icelanders (New York: Penguin, 2005), 672...
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    Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu (listen) or the Saga of Gunnlaugur Serpent-Tongue is one of the sagas of Icelanders. Composed at the end of the 13th century,...
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    A legendary saga or fornaldarsaga (literally, "story/history of the ancient era") is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders' sagas, takes place before...
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    Kings' sagas (Icelandic: konungasögur, Nynorsk: kongesoger, -sogor, Bokmål: kongesagaer) are Old Norse sagas which principally tell of the lives of semi-legendary...
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    media:dolstein 2.gif Orkisz, Jan (2016). "Pole-weapons in the Sagas of Icelanders: a comparison of literary and archaeological sources". Acta Periodica Duellatorum...
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    Saga of the People of Laxárdalur, is one of the sagas of Icelanders. Written in the 13th century, it tells of people in the Breiðafjörður area in western...
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  • such as her distinctive clothing and use of a wand – found in the sagas of Icelanders. According to the saga, times were tough in Greenland; hunters caught...
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    Fólkvangr (category Conceptions of heaven)
    ISBN 0-304-34520-2 Scudder, Bernard (Trans.) (2001). "Egils saga" as collected in various (2001). The Sagas of Icelanders. Penguin Group. ISBN 0-14-100003-1 Simek, Rudolf...
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    corpus consists of thousands of tales recorded in Old Norse ranging from Icelandic family histories (Sagas of Icelanders) to Migration period tales mentioning...
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  • The Saga Age (Icelandic: Söguöld [ˈsœːɣʏˌœlt]) is the period in Icelandic history during which the majority of the sagas of Icelanders are set. It runs...
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    Gísla saga Súrssonar (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈcistla ˈsaːɣa ˈsur̥sɔnar̥] , The saga of Gísli the Outlaw) is one of the sagas of Icelanders. It tells...
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  • the AGA saga. Successful writers of popular family sagas include Susan Howatch, R. F. Delderfield and Philippa Carr. The sagas of Icelanders – the medieval...
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    Heathen hof (category Archaeology of Northern Europe)
    preside over such gatherings." "The Saga of the People of Kjalarnes," tr. John Porter, The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, ed. Viðar Hreinsson et al., Reykjavík:...
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    History of Icelandic nationality Icelandic nobility Settlement of Iceland Sagas of Icelanders Icelandic: Þjóðveldið Ísland, [ˈθjouːðˌvɛltɪθ]; Old Norse: Íslands...
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