Description
| Product ID: | 9780141000039 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Sagas of the Icelanders |
| Authors: | Author: Jane Smiley |
| Page Count: | 348 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Sagas |
| Description: | A collection of stories, which depicts the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. 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 ten 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2005-02-24 |
