Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Icelandic (language)

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The Story of Norna-Gest, Icelandic Tale
(c. 1300)

The Death of Norna-Gest

Just the Facts:

Name: Norna-gests Thattr
Known as: The Story of Norna-Gest
Dates: c. 1300
Place: Iceland
Language: Icelandic
What it is: Icelandic tale about a Norse hero who would live only as long as the candle next to his crib lasted

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Volsunga Saga, Icelandic Prose Saga
(late 13th century)

After a rock inscription illustrating the Volsung Saga

Just the Facts:

Name: Volsunga Saga
Dates: Icelandic
Place: Iceland
Language: Icelandic
What it is: Icelandic prose saga on the origin and decline of the Völsung clan
Included in lists (What's This?): HC

The Story of Burnt Njal, Icelandic Saga
(13th century)

Gunnar and Hallgerdr

Just the Facts:

Name: Njals Saga
Known as: The Story of Burnt Njal
Dates: 13th century, though describing events between 960 and 1020
Place: Iceland
Language: Icelandic
What it is: Icelandic saga about the friends Njáll Thorgeirsson (a scholar) and Gunnar Hámundarson (a warrior) and their involvement in feuding (much of it caused by Gunnar's evil wife Hallgerdr) that leads to the death of Njall by fire.

Icelandic sagas
(870-1056)

Grettir the outlaw ready to fight;
17th-century Icelandic manuscript

Just the Facts:

Name: Icelandic sagas
Place: Iceland
Dates: the "Saga Age" (870-1056)
Language: Icelandic
What they are: over 40 sagas from Iceland's "Saga Age" (870-1056) including Eiríks saga rauða (Saga of Erik the Red)

Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic Historian
(1179-1241)

Just the Facts:

Name: Snorri Sturluson
Birth: Unknown Date, 1179, Dalasýsla, Iceland
Death: September 23, 1241, Reykholt, Iceland
Language: Icelandic
Who he was: Icelandic historian and poet, assumed author or editor of the Prose Edda (also called the Younger Edda), an Old Norse saga compiled around 1220-1241
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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The Story of Norna-Gest, Icelandic Tale(c. 1300)

Volsunga Saga, Icelandic Prose Saga(late 13th century)

The Story of Burnt Njal, Icelandic Saga(13th century)

Icelandic sagas(870-1056)

Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic Historian(1179-1241)

The Story of Norna-Gest, Icelandic Tale
(c. 1300)

Volsunga Saga, Icelandic Prose Saga
(late 13th century)

The Story of Burnt Njal, Icelandic Saga
(13th century)

Icelandic sagas
(870-1056)

Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic Historian
(1179-1241)