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The material of the short tales of icelanders sagas is similar to islendinga sogur, in shorter form. Bernard scudder the saga of the people of vatnsdal trans. Download pdfthe icelandic saga database is an online resource dedicated to the digital publication of the sagas of the icelanders a large body of medieval literature which. They are the bestknown specimens of icelandic literature. 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.
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