Index – Icelandic Saga Database
The Icelandic Saga Database is a web-based useful resource devoted to publishing the Sagas of the Icelanders — a big physique of medieval Icelandic literature. The sagas are prose histories describing occasions that came about amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland in the course of the interval of the Icelandic Commonwealth within the tenth and eleventh centuries CE.
The Icelandic sagas are believed to have been written within the thirteenth and 14th centuries CE, maybe originating in an oral custom of storytelling. Whereas their facticity and authorship is for probably the most half unknown, they’re a widely known gem of world literature due to their sparse, succinct prose fashion and balanced storytelling. The sagas focus largely on historical past, particularly genealogical and household historical past, and mirror the struggles and conflicts that arose amongst the second and third generations of Norse settlers in medieval Iceland, which was on this time a distant, decentralised society with a wealthy authorized custom however no organized govt energy.
This web site comprises all the extant Icelandic family sagas. They’re accessible in a wide range of open codecs. The texts use modernised Icelandic orthography. Translations into English and different languages are additionally made out there the place these exist within the public area.
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