The sagas of Icelanders
Subtitle: a selection
By: preface by Jane Smiley ; introduction by Robert Kellogg.
Series: World of the sagas
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 782
Subjects: Sagas -- Translations into English; Old Norse literature -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Other titles: Complete sagas of Icelanders, including 49 tales.
Notes: "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin ... 2000"--T.p. verso.

"The sagas and tales in this book are reprinted from the Complete sagas of Icelanders I-V, published 1997 by Leifur Eiríksson Publishing, Iceland, with minor alterations"--P. [lviii].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [lv]-lvii).
Table of contents: title: Egil's saga / (trans. Bernard Scudder); title: The saga of the people of Vatnsdal / (trans. Andrew Wawn); title: The saga of the people of Laxardal / (trans. Keneva Kunz); title: Bolli Bollason's tale / (trans. Keneva Kunz); title: The saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi / (trans. Terry Gunnell); title: The saga of the confederates / (trans. Ruth C. Ellison); title: Gisli Sursson's saga / (trans. Martin S. Regal); title: The saga of Gunnlaug serpent-tongue / (trans. Katrina C. Attwood); title: The saga of Ref the Sly / (trans. George Clark); title: The Vinland sagas. The saga of the Greenlanders / (trans. Keneva Kunz) ; Eirik the Red's saga / (trans. Keneva Kunz); title: The tale of Thorstein Staff-struck / (trans. Anthony Maxwell); title: The tale of Halldor Snorrason II / (trans. Terry Gunnell); title: The tale of sarcastic Halli / (trans. George Clark); title: The tale of Thorstein Shiver / (trans. Anthony Maxwell); title: The tale of Audun from the West Fjords (trans. Anthony Maxwell); title: The tale of the story-wise Icelander / (trans. Anthony Maxwell).