The Sagas of Icelanders (World of the Sagas)
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: March 30, 2000
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 848
ISBN-13: 9780713993561
Subjects: Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Prose & writers: classical, early & medieval; Icelandic
First sentence: Egil's Saga is acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of the genre, a magnificently wrought portrait of poet, warrior and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson.