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Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories (Penguin Classics)

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 | #154760 in Books |  Penguin |  1971-04-30 |  1971-04-30 | Original language:Icelandic | PDF # 1 |  7.95 x.45 x5.20l,.27 | File type: PDF | 144 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| timeless tales|By Joey|Medieval Icelandic sagas are a great treasure of world literature. This book contains a sample of some of the shorter tales of the genre. You can think of them as a type of historical fiction: stories taking place just after the Vikings settled Iceland, but written a few hundred years later. These aren't the great larger than life sagas that describe the|Language Notes|Text: English, Icelandic (translation)|From the Back Cover|They date from the thirteenth century and fall into two distinct groups. Hrafnkel's Saga, Thorstein the Staff-Struck, and Ale Hood are set in the past

Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by his powerful neighbour, and Thorstein the Staff-Struck, whic...

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