The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smiley #literature from the enduring playability of

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ISBN: 9781399812474

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The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smiley #literature from the enduring playability ofIn Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the worlds great literary treasures as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who