num_pages: 336
description: Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "GunnlaugWormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.
language: English
title: Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas
titlecomplete: Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas
genres: Historical, Literature, History, Classics, Mythology, Medieval, Short Stories, Poetry, Scandinavian Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1125
series: Íslendingasögur/Sagas of Icelanders
publisher: Oxford University Press