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The saga of erik the red touches on the brutality of the warrior king, and his son leif erikson's voyages making landfall on what would become north america for outsiders, these sagas might seem a curious bit of local mythology. The sagas of icelanders (icelandic: Narratives about early inhabitants of iceland, mostly set in the period between 930, when the alþing (or general assembly) of iceland was established, and circa 1030 (the latter date marking roughly the introduction of clerical structures to iceland).

We gathered data for 18 sagas and tales from the foundation of icelandic literature.

(eds.) (2000) the sagas of icelanders: The greatest of icelanders' sagas, the njáls saga, has in fact two heroes, njáll, who is wise, prudent, and endowed with prophetic gifts, and gunnar, who is young and inexperienced. All the sagas are available in icelandic with modernised spelling, while many are available translated into english or other languages, indicated by the flags below the links. The sagas of the icelanders, written in the 12th and 13th century and telling the stories of the early settlers of iceland.