1. Icelandic Sagas
... 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 ... form, lacing the prose narrative periodically with stanzas of skaldic poetry. Most poetic citations are of single, occasional verses or lausav asur (literally 'loose verses'), which, being put in the mouths of characters, form an integral part of the narrative " often the climax of an ep...
- Word Count: 3249
- Approx Pages: 13
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate