Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland (Penguin Classics)
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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&apos;s oral culture and their conversion to Christianity, these stories are works of ironic humour and stylistic innovation.


Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Page Flip: Enabled
Language: English
File size: 2208 KB
Publisher: Penguin
Print length: 355 pages
Publication date: March 7, 2013
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
subtitle: Kindle Edition
author: Robert Kellogg Viðar Hreinsson