Dialogues with the Viking Age: Narration and Representation in the Sagas of the Icelanders |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Icelandic SagasSagas of IcelandersÍslendingasögur | 17 |
The Discovery and Settlement of Iceland 23 The Formation of | 34 |
Copyright | |
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amongst Arnkell Bandamanna saga Bjarni Björn brother chieftains Christian conflict culture deal death described developed disputes dream Edda Eddic Egill's Egils saga elements Eyrbyggja saga farmers fate feud Fóstbræðra saga genre Gísla saga Gísli Glúmr goði Grettir Grettis saga Guðmundr Guðrún Gunnarr Gunnlaugs Heiðarvíga saga Helga Helgi Hermann Pálsson heroes heroic historical honour Höskuldr Hrafnkels saga important individual influence interpretation Íslend Íslendinga Íslendingasögur Jón Jónas Kristjánsson killing Kjartan Kormákr Laxdæla saga literary literature lives Ljósvetninga saga medieval Meulengracht Sørensen narrative material narrator Njáll Njáls saga Norway Norwegian king Ólafr oral tradition plot poems poetry poets prose reader reveal Reykjavík role saga world saga writers saga's scene scholars seems sense settlement Sigurðsson Sigurður Nordal skaldic Snorri Snorri Sturluson social society sögur story texts thirteenth century tion Valla-Ljóts saga vengeance verses Vésteinn Ólason Víga-Glúms saga Viking woman women words writing written Þórir Þorkell Þórólfr