Lovers, poets, and dragon-slaying heroes populate the gripping Icelandic sagas included in this collection. Part of Penguin Classics' eight-volume Icelandic Saga collection, this volume includes stories that were composed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and are set more than two hundred years earlier-a time when the old Viking ethos of honor and heroic adventure merged with new ideas of romantic infatuation. Set in the farmsteads of Viking-age Iceland, each of these sagas features poet heroes, complex love triangles, and travels to foreign lands. In her informative introduction, Diana Whaley highlights these important themes and reveals how the authors used these tales to entertain, to preserve and shape traditions about the past, and to explore vital social issues. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Sagas of Warrior-Poets

Literature & Fiction

Diana Whaley

United States

Penguin Classics

A Dictionary of Lake District Place-Names

History

English Place-Name Society

Volumes 1 and 2 in this new series present the large and important body of skaldic poetry preserved in sagas of legendary and historical medieval Scandinavian kings, mainly those of Norway. This volume also contains the general Introduction to the series.

Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035 (SKALDIC POETRY OF THE SCANDINAVIAN MIDDLE AGES)

History & Criticism

Brepols Publishers

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