I love Icelandic sagas in general, but I'm pretty sure this one takes the cake! Not only is it full of interesting elements -- dreams and prophecies, marriages and family betrayals, treasures and gift-giving, feasts and farming, voyages to Norway and Ireland and hobnobbing with the royalty there, bl

Laxdaela Saga is a multigenerational soap opera focused on several families of 10th and 11th century Icelanders. There are unlucky lovers, long schemes, extemporaneous versifyings, magic swords and blood feuds galore. The story also provides fascinating cultural and historical perspectives on topics

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Hef ekki lesið annað en þessa sögu og greinar um hana síðustu mánuði. Algjört meistaraverk. Vel uppbyggð og skemmtileg allan tímann. Svo er í henni eitthvað fyrir alla; það er hægt að líta á hana sem ástarsögu, sögu um valdabaráttu, stéttskiptingu eða sögu sem talar in

Þvílík snilld. Saga sem hefur allt; flóttamenn, afturgöngur, höfðingja, ribbalda, seli, skítkast, hnyttin tilsvör og hryllileg morð.

'Tell me one thing, Mother,' he asks, 'whom did you love most?'

One of the most well-known of the Old Norse sagas, the Laxdæla Saga follows Guðrún Ósvifsdóttir and her kinsfolk in the Icelandic region of Laxriverdale. Guðrún is mythically revered as the most beautiful woman in the history of Icel

One of the great Icelandic sagas. It revolves mainly around the life of Gudrun, a strong woman of four husbands and three sons, who have an important role in the saga.

At some point this text becomes a typical saga, with a chain of murders and revenges. But the most interesting point is its telling o