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The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback - 2001
by Various; Jane Smiley (Editor); Introduction by Robert Kellogg
A unique body of medieval literature, the ten Sagas and seven shorter tales in this volume rank with the world's greatest literary treasures. They include the celebrated "Vinland Sagas", which recount Leif Eriksson's pioneering voyage to the New World, and contain the oldest descriptions of the North American continent.
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A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured further west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself.
The 10 Sagas and seven shorter tales in this volume include the celebrated "Vinland Sagas," which recount Leif Eiriksson's pioneering voyage to the New World and contain the oldest descriptions of the North American continent.
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Egil's Saga is acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of the genre, a magnificently wrought portrait of poet, warrior and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson.
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- Title The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Author Various; Jane Smiley (Editor); Introduction by Robert Kellogg
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 848
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2001-03-01
- Features Glossary
- ISBN 9780141000039 / 0141000031
- Weight 1.96 lbs (0.89 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.7 x 2.23 in (21.44 x 14.48 x 5.66 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Sagas, Old Norse literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99044111
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Review of Books, 12/20/2001, Page 32
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