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	Norse saga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Norse sagas or Viking sagas (Icelandic: sögur), are stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history, about early Viking voyages, about migration to Iceland, and of feuds between Icelandic families.
		Icelandic sagas are based on oral traditions and much research has focused on what is real and what is fiction within each tale.
		Most of the manuscripts in which the sagas were originally preserved were taken to Denmark and Sweden in the 17th century, but later returned to Iceland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sagas (1129 words)

	Living and Reliving the Icelandic Sagas
		The exhibition is an initiative of the National and University Library of Iceland, the Library of Congress, the University of Manitoba Libraries and Cornell University Library.
		Icelanders lived in a world of feuding and vengeance, yet developed a unique form of democratic government under the rule of law.
		Her story, which is documented in both the Saga of Eric the Red and the Greenlanders' Saga, is a remarkable tale and reflects the dynamic role Icelandic women have played throughout that country's history.
	rmc.library.cornell.edu /exhibits/sagas/saga1.html (608 words)

	Sagas and Norse Literature Bibliography
		57.The Saga of the Slayings on the Heath (Heidarvíga Saga) tr.
		81.The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi (Hrafnkels Saga Freysgoda) tr.
		84.The Saga of Havard of Isafjord (Hávardar Saga Ísfirdings) tr.
	www.sunnyway.com /runes/sagabooks.html (3224 words)

	Icelandic saga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Icelandic Sagas are prose histories describing mostly events that took place in Iceland during the Age of Settlement.
		They are written in Old Norse in Iceland during the 12th to 15th centuries and mostly during the centre of that epoch.
		The saga writers sought to record their heroes' great achievements and to glorify the virtues of courage and honour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Icelandic_Sagas (133 words)

	Northvegr - The Icelandic Sagas
		Icelanders of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were constantly abridging or expanding, combining or interpolating, re-arranging or re-writing, the works of their predecessors, and it would often have been impossible to assign the name of any single author to the form which they finally assumed.
		In the case of sagas which have a purely fictitious basis, the subject-matter gives but little clue to the date of their composition, or to the part of Iceland in which they were written.
		These frequent genealogies are among the most useful indications which the sagas give as to the date of their composition; but in using them for this purpose some caution is necessary, as nothing was more likely to be inserted by the copier of a saga than a later name in the family tree.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/sagas/002_02.php (982 words)

	Norse saga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Icelandic sagas (Íslendingasögur); these are heroic prose narratives written in the 12th to 14th centuries of the great families of Iceland from 930 to 1030.
		Brennu-Njáls saga; considered by some the greatest of Icelandic prose sagas; many translations are available and it is available on the Internet.
		Hrólfs saga kraka; which is related to the Old English poem Beowulf.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Norse_Saga (1201 words)

	Symposium on Literature and Icelandic Culture
		Iceland's minister of education, science and culture, Björn Bjarnason, opened the symposium, which was organized by the Library of Congress and Cornell University Library.
		The first panel examined "Sagas and the Icelandic Manuscript Tradition.” The participants were Stefan Karlsson, past director of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland; Rudolf Simek of the University of Bonn; and Matthew James Driscoll of the Arnamagnaean Institute at the University of Copenhagen.
		The events were the settlement of Iceland itself (travel to Iceland); the Icelandic conversion to Christianity some 100 years later; and the loss of Iceland's independent political status to Norway in 1262.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0007/icelandic.html (1947 words)

	Icelandic Sagas - The World and I Magazine
		Thus died one of Iceland's greatest authors, a shrewd political maneuvered, astute and cunning arranger of marriages and alliances, keeper of Iceland's laws, and masterful accumulator of wealth and power.
		Iceland's entire social system depended on property relationships, but there was no state entity to give institutional reality to the concept of property through the enforcement of laws.
		The saga writers let their audience know their opinions by putting words in the mouths of "the people of the countryside," by having a character comment "you are a wicked woman," as Gunnar's mother tells Hallgerd, and by their descriptions of the characters.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1992/april/cl2.cfm (2746 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Icelandic Sagas
		The sagas are extended prose (or often prosimetrum) narratives, usually anonymous, which recount the deeds of farmers, heroes, poets, bishops, kings and saints from Iceland and beyond.
		In the Sagas of Icelanders and Sturlunga saga, the freestanding lausavísa is the norm.
		The history of the Icelandic nation from its beginnings to the fourteenth century is fundamental to the understanding of the sagas, supplying both the context for their writing, and much of the subject matter for the Sagas of Icelanders and Contemporary Sagas.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=531 (3890 words)

	Thrand of Gotu: Two Icelandic Sagas from the Flat Island Book. by George Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The bare fact takes one by surprise because this early saga seems to be composed in full view of the tradition and conventions of the Icelandic sagas and even to parody those conventions and to play with the audience's conventional expectations.
		The saga of the Faroe Islanders survives only in interpolations made in sagas of the two Norwegian kings named Olaf: Olaf Tryggvason, the Viking who would be, and briefly was, king of Norway, and Saint Olaf (Olaf the Stout in his own time), another Viking who won and eventually lost that kingdom.
		Icelandic sagas, a diverse group of prose narratives, can be divided into two groups, one representing the conflicts between people in a given district of over two or three generations, the other telling the story of a single remarkable person - like Egil Skallagrimsson, Grettir Asmundarson, or Gudrun Osvifrsdottir.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/651/gotu76.html (1109 words)

	Icelandic Sagas
		Most sagas are quasi-historical texts; the subjects they treat were orally passed down many centuries before finally being written down, and therefor can not necessarily be considered perfectly authentic historical documents; for example, some of the Sagas, such as Eyrbyggja Saga, contain many instances of supernatural events which are obviously fantastic.
		Instead, the Sagas, being more recorded for the sake of posterity than literature, are written in a very matter-of-fact and conservatively succinct prose very accessible to all levels of readers -- what subject any number of romantic authors could spend wordy pages on, an Icelandic writer could summarize in a single objective sentence.
		Iceland itself was populated mostly by Norwegians who left their country in hopes of finding better and more abundant farming lands.
	www.phwibbles.com /sagas (1630 words)

	The Complete Sagas of Icelanders: Including 49 Tales
		In their attention to the actions of individuals within social networks, and the working through of their consequences, the Icelandic sagas are important precursors of the modern novel.
		The sagas are also a valuable source of information about medieval Iceland, a subject of interest to more than medievalists.
		The sagas are each preceded by a brief note on when they were written and their manuscript sources, but otherwise they are clean, mostly unburdened by unnecessary commentary or annotation.
	www.dannyreviews.com /h/Sagas_Icelanders.html (1023 words)

	"Sagas" Portray Iceland's Viking History
		The early Icelanders also traveled westwards, culminating in what many believe is the true first voyage by a European to North America: Leif Eiriksson's expedition, described in the sagas as having taken place a thousand years ago.
		Today the sagas are part of Iceland's daily consciousness, and they are celebrated both for their historical record and their narrative artistry.
		"The sagas of Icelanders, being renowned as outstanding masterpieces of literature, rank with the world's greatest literary treasures, such as the epics of Homer, the Greek tragedy, and the plays of William Shakespeare," said Alma Gudmundsdottir, curator of the Icelandic Saga Center in Hvolsvöllur, a village in southern Iceland.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/05/0507_040507_icelandsagas.html (499 words)

	Icelandic Sheepdog - Herding on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The Icelandic Sheepdog may be self-colored, in which case there should be a little white on the chest, or may have white markings on the head, neck, feet and tail.
		In Iceland, gathering sheep was (and still is) accomplished by men on foot or on horseback going out to round up the sheep, with the Icelandic Sheepdog providing useful assistance by helping to find the sheep, gather and move them, and going after and bringing back any sheep which try to leave the flock.
		The Icelandic Sheepdog is now becoming popular with urban horse-lovers in Iceland, who keep horses for their leisure time and have fallen in love, again, with this wonderful dog.
	glassportal.com /herding/iceland.htm (1513 words)

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		The Icelanders' Sagas (or Family Sagas), written in the 13th century, are the crown of Icelandic literature.
		This saga is one of the longest and generally considered the finest of the Icelandic sagas.
		Sagas are tales of kings and real or legendary heroes, both men and women, of Iceland and Scandinavia.
	stavacademy.co.uk /mimir/differenttales.htm (621 words)

	Icelandic literature (the s.c.nordic FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Among the more historical Saga literature, based on both oral and written sources, the best known are Ari Þorgilsson's Íslendingabók (a history of Iceland), Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla ('The Disc of the World', a history of Swedish and Norwegian kings), and the anonymous Knytlinga Saga (a history of Danish kings).
		The family Sagas, such as Egils Saga (the story of Iceland's greatest skald, Egill Skallagrímsson) and Njáls Saga, fall somewhere between the fictional and factual varieties of sagas.
		The Poetic Edda is a collection of 34 Icelandic poems, interspersed with prose, dating from the 9th to the 12th century.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq55.html (1072 words)

	Hurstwic: Arms and Combat in the Icelandic Sagas
		The Íslendingasögur (Sagas of Icelanders, sometimes called the Icelandic family sagas) are a valuable resource for the study of Norse society and culture in the Viking age.
		Note that the edition is in modern Icelandic, so the spelling of words may differ from that in old Icelandic dictionaries or editions such as the ÍF editions.
		An introductory article on the Sagas of Icelanders and their use as a resource in the study of Norse culture and society
	www.hurstwic.org /library/arms_in_sagas (987 words)

	Courts in the Icelandic Sagas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Despite the initial bad blood between Iceland and Norway, the concept of monarchy persisted in all of Scandinavia throughout the Viking Age.
		Icelanders formed their own democracy but they continued to trade with and individually serve Scandinavian kings.
		The few references in Icelandic literature, the historic record, and in the epic poem Beowulf discuss activities before and during the meal: the bringing of wash water, the bringing of the drinking horn, and toasts.
	home.jtan.com /~cellio/vetr/Court.htm (3086 words)

	ipedia.com: Norse saga Article
		The text is a generally very romanticised, fantastic epic tale (a saga, often epic poetry usually either prose poetry or alliterative verse) of heroic deeds of days long gone, tales of worthy men, who were often Vikings, sometimes Pagan, sometimes Christian, always frightfully real, and not that different from us.
		The (English) saga, (Swedish/Danish/Norwegian) saga orginates from (Icelandic) saga, pl sögur and refers to 1) "what is said, statement" or 2) "story, tale, history".
		Icelandic sagas; these are heroic prose narratives written from 1200-20 of the great families of Iceland from 930 to 1030.
	www.ipedia.com /norse_saga.html (1172 words)

	saga, in Old Norse Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Sagas may be divided into sagas of the kings, mainly of early Norwegian rulers; Icelandic sagas, both biographical and historical; contemporary sagas, which were also Icelandic and were written about living persons; legendary sagas of the distant past; and sagas that were translations of foreign romances.
		Sagas were composed from about the early 11th to the mid-14th cent.
		The intellectual complexion of the Icelandic Middle Ages: toward a new profile of Old Icelandic saga literature.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0842936.html (338 words)

	Iceland HQ : Icelandic Sagas
		The island called Iceland, is considered, because of its population and historyas forming a part of Europe, is situated in the North Atlantic Ocean.
		Saganet project by the National and University Library of Iceland and CornellUniversity with the association of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland to...
		Iceland HQ excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website.
	icelandhq.com /icelandicsagas/index.php (750 words)

	Historic Icelandic sagas on view in Kroch Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Her name was Gudrídur Thorbjarnardóttir, and her story is just one facet of "Living and Reliving the Icelandic Sagas," the fall exhibition on display in Cornell University's Kroch Library through Oct. 10.
		"Living and Reliving the Icelandic Sagas" is an initiative of Cornell University Library, the National and University Library of Iceland, the Library of Congress and the University of Manitoba Libraries.
		The exhibition chronicles the history of Icelandic saga literature and consists of scores of items, including Icelandic paper manuscripts never seen before in North America and a selection of rare printed books from Cornell Library's renowned Fiske Icelandic Collection.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/00/8.24.00/Iceland.html (445 words)

	Exhibition and Symposium on Icelandic Sagas
		A corresponding symposium, "Saga Literature and the Shaping of Icelandic Culture," will be held May 24, from 1:20 p.m.
		The account of their lives and legends is embodied in the Icelandic sagas, recorded and handed down through the centuries.
		The 10 major sections of the exhibition present the sagas themselves, feature the various periods of their development, and examine their influence on Western culture in the past and present.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2000/00-058.html (357 words)

	comparison compare contrast essays - A Comparison of Beowulf and Icelandic Sagas
		The former saga is an Icelandic saga representing oral traditions dating back to the fourth and fifth centuries, when Attila the Hun was fighting on the northern fringes of the Roman Empire; the latter is an Icelandic saga representing 1000 years of oral traditions prior to the 1300’s when it was written.
		An unknown author wrote The Saga of The Volsungs in the thirteenth century, basing his story on far older Norse poetry.
		Iceland was settled by the Vikings about 870-930, who took to that land the famous lay of Sigurd and the Volsungs.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=6105 (1546 words)

	South Iceland - The Icelandic Sagas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The oldest surviving Icelandic literature is poetry, some of it almost certainly being composed before the settlement of Iceland, either in Scandinavia or Scandinavian settlements elsewhere.
		The Hávamál was almost certainly composed before the settlement of Iceland, and handed down orally until it was written in Iceland.
		During the 12th and the 13th centuries there were some great historians at work in Iceland, concentrating on Icelandic history and the histories of the kings of Norway.
	www.south.is /sagas.html (546 words)

	Virtually Virtual Iceland - The Icelandic Sagas
		The Icelandic Sagas have a special niche in the world's literature.
		Icelandic Sagas are true history, or pure fiction.
		Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar - The Saga of Grettir the Strong
	www.simnet.is /gardarj/folk/sagas.htm (411 words)

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