Eyrbyggja Saga Paperback by Anonymous; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Hermann Pálsson and PaulEdwards

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics (1989-06-06)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 192 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780140445305
• Item Weight: 147.42 grams
• Dimensions: 7.67 x 5.12 x 0.48 cm

An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society.

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