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Conference Presentation: Matthew Driscoll, ‘ Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur’Matthew Driscoll (University of Copenhagen/Ulster University), ‘ Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsögur’. Chaired by Orla Murphy.…
Reading list for essay question on the figure of the hero in Ǫrvar-Odds sagaEssay Question: How is the figure of the hero presented in Ǫrvar-Odds saga?
Essay Question: What are the major differences between the telling of the legend of the Vǫlsungar in eddic poetry and that in Vǫlsunga saga?
Essay Question: To what extent do the authors of Gísla saga Súrssonar and Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar critique Icelandic law and the sentence of…
Essay Question: Why do the authors of the skáldasögur (Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa, Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, Hallfreðar…
Essay Question: How is the figure of the poet presented in the skáldasögur (Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa, Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar, Gunnlaugs saga…
Lecture notes on Gísla saga SúrssonarNotes produced by Rebecca Merkelbach for an introductory lecture at Cambridge on Gísla saga Súrssonar (one of the Sagas of Icelanders dealing with the…
Handout on Gísla saga SúrssonarA handout produced by Rebecca Merkelbach to accompany an introductory lecture at Cambridge on Gísla saga Súrssonar (one of the Sagas of Icelanders…
Handout: Laxdœla sagaHandout on Laxdœla saga saga (The Saga of the People of Laxárdalr) by Joanne Shortt Butler, including extracts from the saga, a family tree and…
Handout: THE ORIGINS OF SAGAS: COMPOSITION AND TRADITIONA handout produced by Joanne Shortt Butler on the origins of sagas: composition and tradition, including a timeline, extracts from sagas, and a…
Handout on 'The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey’s Godi'A handout produced by Joanne Shortt Butler on the Old Norse literature topic of 'The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey’s Godi', including background reading,…
Hurstwic: Building a Viking-age Turf HouseHurstwic recently traveled to Iceland to shoot our next film, “The Final Battle of Grettir the Strong”. The saga hero Grettir, and his brother Illugi,…
Guide to the classics: the Icelandic sagaA brief introduction to the Icelandic sagas.
Viking Society for Northern Research Web PublicationsDigital copies of publications produced by the Viking Society for Northern Research, including 'Saga Book' vols. I–XXXVIII, 'A New Introduction to Old…
Heimskringla Volume II Óláfr Haraldsson (The Saint) translated by Alison Finlay and Anthony FaulkesA modern translation of St Olaf's saga available as a freely downloadable pdf from the Viking Society for Northern Research
The Saga of Olaf Haraldson translated by Samuel LaingThis item links to Laing's translation of St Olaf's saga. It is an old translation. The translator has been quite free in interpreting the Old Norse…
Ólafs saga helgaThe text of St Olaf's saga in modern Icelandic
Icelandic Saga Map ProjectThe Icelandic Saga Map project has created an interactive map of the Icelandic sagas, linking places on the map to events in the sagas.
Blog post: Norse Sagas and Whey VatsA post about vats in the Norse sagas from the Medieval Cheese blog.
22. Vikings / The European Prospect, 1000The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210)
In the first part of this lecture, Professor Freedman discusses the emergence of the Vikings from…