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  • Published: 22 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141975528
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

Comic Sagas And Tales From Iceland




A collection of innovative and humorous stories from medieval Iceland, in new versions by the best translators from Icelandic into English

Comic Sagas and Tales brings together the very finest Icelandic stories from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, a time of civil unrest and social upheaval. With feuding families and moments of grotesque violence, the sagas see such classic mythological figures as murdered fathers, disguised beggars, corrupt chieftains and avenging sons do battle with axes, words and cunning. The tales, meanwhile, follow heroes and comical fools through dreams, voyages and religious conversions in medieval Iceland and beyond. Shaped by Iceland's oral culture and their conversion to Christianity, these stories are works of ironic humour and stylistic innovation.

  • Published: 22 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141975528
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

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