Sagas of Icelanders
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The sagas of Icelanders, also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives primarily based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland
Egill Skallagrímsson in a seventeenth-century manuscript of Egil's Saga
Grettir is ready to fight in this illustration from a seventeenth-century Icelandic manuscript.
Detail of a miniature from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript
SÁM 66, 75v, death of Baldr
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Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.
Sagas of Icelanders
…of Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingasögur, modern Icelandic pronunciation: ), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives primarily based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries…
Snorri Sturluson, portrait by Christian Krohg: Illustration for Heimskringla 1899-Edition
Excerpt from Njáls saga in the manuscript Möðruvallabók (AM 132 folio 13r) c. 1350.