The Saga of the Volsungs and other stories

by Gavin Chappell

The legendary sagas, or Fornaldars gur, are a branch of medieval Icelandic literature, a subgenre of the sagas themselves, lengthy narratives that bear a superficial similarity to modern novels; the legendary sagas concern themselves with legendary times predating the settlement on Iceland in the tenth century AD. While fantastic episodes are not unknown in sagas outside this bracket, such as Grettis Saga, and they abound in the Sagas of the Knights,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150017579X
• ISBN13: 9781500175795
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"