Icelandic Sagas
The Sagas of Icelanders have also been known, rather imprecisely, as Icelandic Family Sagas. They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). There are some forty in total (this being, for instance, the number translated in The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, 1997). Collectively, they cover events running from the mid ninth century to the mid eleventh and located in all inhabited parts of Iceland (and some uninhabited), though saga-writing flourished above all in the West and North. Individual sagas vary in length from the compact Saga of Thorstein the White / Þorsteins saga hvíta and The Saga of the Greenlanders / Grænlendinga saga which occupy 8 and 13 pages respectively in The Complete Sagas, to the 220–page Njáls saga. The latter, together with Egils saga, Grettis saga, Eyrbyggja saga, and Laxdæla saga, have sometimes been counted as the 'big five' sagas. The titular heroes of the first three are Njáll, a man of outstanding intelligence and wisdom, though not a fighter; Egill, farmer, warrior, adventurer, thug and outstanding poet; and Grettir, whose combination of extraordinary strength, stubbornness and ill
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