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	Norse saga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tales are usually realistic, except legendary sagas, sagas of saints, sagas of bishops and translated or recomposed romances.
		Most of the manuscripts in which the sagas are preserved were taken to Denmark and Sweden in the 17th century, but later returned to Iceland.
		The Mythology theory of saga origin maintains that the plots and characters were heavily influenced by mythological material associated with the local landscape.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sagas (943 words)

	Northvegr - The Icelandic Sagas
		When the practice of writing down the sagas arose, it was to be expected that all the information which had thus accumulated should receive attention, and as a matter of fact the saga-writers were as diligent in recording this foreign historical matter as in preserving the traditions of their own island.
		King Hákon had sailed on that expedition to Scotland from which he never returned, but Sturla gained great favour with his son and successor Magnus, and was subsequently commissioned by him to write the late king's life (see p.
		The saga, which is of great length, must have been written in Iceland about 1200, but the materials for it may have be gathered mainly in the Orkneys themselves, as Icelanders were frequent visitors to the Islands, and Icelandic poets attached themselves to several of the earls.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/sagas/00401.php (2726 words)

	Vikings & their Gods - Icelandic Literature
		Sagas are tales of Norwegian kings and real or legendary heroes, both men and women, of Iceland and Scandinavia.
		In addition, the saga form was used in the 13th century to write contemporary history as it evolved around preeminent personages of the time.
		The result is generally known under the collective name of Sturlunga Saga; it recounts in gory detail the internecine struggle of the 13th century that led to the end of the old Icelandic commonwealth.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/vikings/icellit.htm (524 words)

	Norway Info - Norwegian words - Saga
		Sagas are prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of Norway and Iceland.
		The so-called saga age was about 930 to 1050 and the sagas were written down during the period from about 1190 to 1320.
		Kings' sagas; recounting the lives of Scandinavian rulers, and reflecting the continued interest of the Icelanders in their old homeland.
	www.cyberclip.com /Katrine/NorwayInfo/words/saga.html (393 words)

	Sagas and Norse Literature Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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)

	Sagas and Other Literature of the North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The sagas are epic tales, often poems, of the exploits and explorations of the Icelanders and other northerners.
		The main subject matter of Flateyjarbók is sagas of the kings in Norway, but there are a number of interpolated episodes from other sagas, including one of the accounts of the discovery of America.
		Saga of a warrior society living on an island in the Baltic, to which no women were admitted.
	www.sunnyway.com /runes/sagas.html (1323 words)

	DragonBear History: All That: Eddas and Sagas
		The sagas, in general, have a historical (or at least pseudo-historical) setting, are the approximate length of a modern novel, have a very distinctive literary style, and are always anonymous.
		The Family Sagas, or Sagas of Icelanders, include the most typical and the most famous sagas, the ones most of us mean when we say "sagas." They are usually presented as local history: the story of an individual, a family, or a district.
		And obviously, in using the sagas for any purposes of documentation, remember that literally centuries may have gone by between the time the events are reported as happening, and the time the saga was created.
	www.dragonbear.com /eddas.html (1575 words)

	essay
		Some of the verses in sagas will have been composed contemporaneously with the events they concern, others must have been composed at a later date, either orally or when the saga was written.
		Saga writers could draw upon written records; earlier sagas, whether of Icelanders, kings or saints; oral prose and verse; lists of genealogies; law books; works on foreign history; Landnamabok and Islendingabok, some of which, or versions of which, are now lost.
		It was in the C13th saga that the Icelanders showed what they were capable of and, as important as their poetry was, their greatest achievement was a prose style unsurpassed in mediaeval Europe.
	www.scop.co.uk /essay.html (3002 words)

	Welcome to Medieval Forum \| William Sayers
		In contrast to the memorializing verse that we find in the kings’ sagas, for example, the purportedly impromptu stanzas of the poets’ sagas are speech acts of courting, defamation, or self-advancement that are intended to affect and modify surrounding reality.
		As in the family sagas, the Norwegian king, often the physical match for the outstanding Icelander who visits him, is superior in his knowledge of men, informed by the accumulated wisdom of his royal office.
		The sagas impose narrative order and celebrate the Icelandic past at the same time as they counter, through the exposure of long-term inconsequentiality, the socially destabilizing effects of erotic and defamatory verse, the downside of a poetry that were better engaged in Ares than Eros, and in the praise of kings than of farmgirls.
	www.sfsu.edu /~medieval/Volume3/Sayers.html (4913 words)

	Norse Sagas
		Norse sagas are similar to epic, but usually refer to works compiled during medieval Iceland.
		Saga is usually a narrative, either in poems or prose, dealing with historical, legendary and mythical subjects, written in Old Norse, during the 13th-14th century.
		The Völsunga narrated the entire saga of family of Sigurd (Völsungs) and the Giukings or the Niflungs (the Nibelungs in the German myth).
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/sagas.html (1000 words)

	Legends - Sagas and Sea-Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sagas are prose tales of kings, warriors, poets, and explorers; some are historical chronicles, some are pure fiction, and some (in the way of much medieval literature) partake of both fact and fiction.
		One of the best-known sagas is Heimskringla, a history of the kings of Sweden and Norway, also written by Snorri Sturluson.
		Early Scandinavian literature, prose or poetry, is rich in heroic tales of kings, elves, seeresses, explorers, dwarves, magic-wielders and sword-bearers; its influence colors much of the imaginative literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
	legends.duelingmodems.com /sagas/northern.html (676 words)

	Symposium on Literature and Icelandic Culture
		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 second panel examined "Sagas and Daily Life in the Icelandic Commonwealth.” The participants were Jenny Jochens, professor emeritus at Towson State University; Vésteinn Ólason of the Árni Magnússon Institute; Jesse Byock of the University of California at Los Angeles; and Theodore M. Andersson of Stanford University.
		The fourth session explored "Influence of the Sagas on Modern Nordic Literature.” The panelists included Jón Karl Helgason, a historian and novelist; Régis Boyer, a professor emeritus of the University of Paris-Sorbonne; and Torfi H. Tulinius of the University of Iceland.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0007/icelandic.html (1947 words)

	Legends - Sagas and Sea-Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The nineteenth century saw a real vogue for the saga tales, and the English William Morris and the German Richard Wagner represent the most important resurgence of the Eddic material and spirit...
		William Morris's 1870 translation of the Volsunga Saga was the crowning achievement of his translations from the Norse sagas, and in turn fathered his lyric poem Sigurd (1877), a retelling of the Saga with elements from the Nibelungenlied contemporaneous with Wagner's Ring cycle.
		Morris's saga translations also influenced his Tale of the House of the Wolfings, and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse (1889).
	legends.duelingmodems.com /sagas/index.html (701 words)

	Rise of the Saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Proponents of this theory argue that the Sagas are creative works of their authors’ imagination and have little grounding in historical reality, a position which gives greater credence to the literary and creative abilities of the Icelandic writer (G. Pálsson 19).
		The Sagas of Kings were the earliest of the Sagas to be composed in Iceland, and they include both individual biographies of rulers and longer periods in different nations’ histories, including Denmark, Færo and Orkney, and especially Norway.
		The Sagas of Icelanders illustrate the lives of famous or infamous characters from the early periods of Iceland’s history, and also include recurring patterns and images pulled from the pagan oral traditions, such as ghosts, premonitions, and patterns of vengeance and retribution (H. Pálsson 77).
	www.slis.ualberta.ca /cap05/sonya/saga_rise.html (789 words)

	OMACL: Heimskringla
		Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd
		Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald
		Thjodolf of Hvin was the skald of Harald Harfager, and he composed a poem for King Rognvald the Mountain-high, which is called "Ynglingatal." This Rognvald was a son of Olaf Geirstadalf, the brother of King Halfdan the Black.
	omacl.org /Heimskringla (1102 words)

	Theodoricus monachus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He wrote a Latin history of the kings of Norway, Historia de Antiquitate Regum Norwagiensium sometime between 1177 and 1188.
		Theodoricus' work is one of the Norwegian synoptics, the oldest preserved kings' sagas.
		Theodoricus relied heavily on Icelandic sources, possibly including the Oldest Saga of St. Olaf and Oddr Snorrason's Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodoricus_monachus (212 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.
		As literature, the sagas are held in high esteem, but are relatively plain when compared to both contemporaneous and later medieval works, which, like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf, often made use of ornate verse and fancified poetry.
		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.
	phwibbles.com /sagas (1630 words)

	UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
		Within these books the titles of the sagas and the names of characters may be cited in the original Icelandic, thus, e.g., Bandamanna saga, not The Saga of the Confederates, Ásgerðr, not Asgerd.
		Morkinskinna: the earliest Icelandic chronicle of the Norwegian kings (1030-1157).
		Quiz 1: The Saga of the Volsungs, Egil’s saga, Eirik the Red’s Saga.
	publish.uwo.ca /~rpoole/295foutline.html (2505 words)

	Thrand of Gotu: Two Icelandic Sagas from the Flat Island Book. by George Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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.
		Since the writing of the kings' sagas precedes the writing of the Icelandic family sagas, the early date of the saga of the Faroe Islanders has occasioned too little scholarly surprise.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/651/gotu76.html (1109 words)

	Jon Gunnar Jørgensen: "Sagaoversettelser i Norge på 1500-tallet"
		The subject of this article is a group of four kings' saga translations, all of which are connected with Bergen: the so-called Christiern Pedersen excerpts and saga translations by Mattis Størssøn, Laurents Hanssøn and Peder Claussøn Friis.
		There was no milieu for the study of kings' sagas in Norway as early as the 1520s.
		He developed an interest in saga manuscripts, and several parchments which were in Bergen at the time contain marginalia in his hand.
	ariadne.uio.no /colmed/z-jorg93.htm (1059 words)

	LU - SAS107 Icelandic Sagas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Emphasis will be placed on the study of the sagas of the Icelanders (the family sagas), how modern research deals with the questions of their origins and authorship as well as of their significance as historical documents and of their aesthetic character.
		Furthermore some extracts of other genres of sagas such as the Kings' Sagas (Heimskringla) and the sagas about the 13th century (the contemporary sagas, e g Sturlunga Saga) will be read.
		Droplaugarsona saga and other sagas from the eastern part of Iceland; discussions and aspects as above; Landnámabók as a source for the family sagas; the chieftains in the eastern part.
	www.lu.se /o.o.i.s?id=1480&template=.print.t (669 words)

	Claus Krag: "Harald Hardrådes ungdomsår og kongesagaene"
		The kings' sagas are primarily biographies of rulers and are not generally concerned with a king's life before his ascension to the throne.
		Another reason for the inclusion of Haraldr's early years in the kings' sagas seems to have been the entertaining and dramatic quality of the actual story (or stories).
		The conclusions to be drawn are: (1) The saga writers wished to make use of skaldic poetry, but had no methods for identifying and excluding material which originated in other sources, but which otherwise seemed plausible or fitting for the person concerned, or offered an entertaining story.
	ariadne.uio.no /colmed/z-krag98.htm (758 words)

	BBC - History - Eric Bloodaxe
		However, although we have to be sceptical of all the details provided by the sagas, there is nothing inherently unlikely in their broad outline of events.
		Like the earliest of the sagas, they were written in the late 12th century, and there are some textual relations between the Latin histories and the Icelandic sagas.
		According to the sagas, he was welcomed by Athelstan, because of the the friendship between Athelstan and Harald Finehair, and was made sub-king of Northumbria under Athelstan's authority.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/vikings/bloodaxe_02.shtml (403 words)

	School of English and Humanities: Alison Finlay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		I have undertaken specialist (Old Norse) teaching at King’s College, University College London and Queen Mary Westfield at BA and MA level in 1983, 1985, 1995, 1998-9 and 2000.
		‘Betrothal and Women’s Autonomy in Laxdla saga and the Poets’ Sagas’,Skáldskaparmál, 4 (Reykjavík, 1997), 107-129.
		‘Kings and Icelanders in Poets’ sagas and Þættir’, in Sagas and the Norwegian Experience, Papers of the Tenth International Saga Conference (Trondheim, August 1997), 159-168.
	www.bbk.ac.uk /eh/staff/acStaff/FinlayAlison (1738 words)

	Royalty.nu - History and Royalty of Iceland - Icelandic Sagas
		The Saga of the Volsungs translated by Jesse L. Byock.
		The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki translated by Jesse L. Byock.
		The Sagas of the Icelanders: A Selection, introduction by Robert Kellogg, preface by Jane Smiley.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Scandinavia/Iceland.html (697 words)

	Província de Barcelona -> Sagàs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		legendary sagas, sagas of saints, sagas of bishops and translated or recomposed...
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	barcelona.gigabusca.com.es /ciudades/sagas-barcelona.html (1822 words)

	ICELAND LITERATURE
		They may be divided into kings' sagas, such as Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, which traces the rulers of Norway from legendary times to 1177, and
		Knytlinga Saga, dealing with Danish kings from Gorm the Old to Canute IV; legendary sagas, which are basically knightly romances and fantasies (sometimes called “lying” sagas) of varying literary merit; and the sagas of Icelanders—more or less fictionalized accounts of the so-called Saga Age (900-1050) in Iceland.
		In addition, the saga form was used in the 13th century to write contemporary history as it evolved around pre-eminent personages of the time.
	www.nat.is /travelguideeng/icelandic_literature.htm (1252 words)

	Royalty.nu - Swedish Royalty, Kings and Queen of Sweden
		Some of the history of the early kings of Sweden can be found in the English poem Beowulf, which was probably written in the seventh or eighth century AD, and sagas such as the Heimskringla, by 13th century Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson.
		Although her nephew Eric of Pomerania was the official king of all three countries, it was Margaret who ruled them until her death in 1412.
		Adopted by the childless Swedish king Carl XIII in 1810, Bernadotte ascended the throne in 1818 as King Carl XIV Johan.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Scandinavia/Sweden.html (1327 words)

	Northvegr - Northern European Studies Texts
		One of the greatest sagas that many scholars believe was written by a woman, chronicling the lives of Aud the Deep-minded and her descendants.
		The Saga of Illugi, The Foster Son of Grid
		A 4th century text by St. Athanasius, the "Father of Orthodoxy" of the Catholic church whose philosophy was used to justify the killing of Heathens and was the backbone of the philosophy that spawned the crusades and inquisitions.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/main.php (2884 words)

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