Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders

Edited by Margaret Clunies Ross Edited by Kari Ellen Gade Edited by Tarrin Wills

Book cover: Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders

Extent: 1750 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Series volume number: 5

Language: English, Norse (Old)

Hardback (Published)

(March 2023)

ISBN: 9782503518985

Price: $244.00

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An edition of long poems and stanzas attributed to the characters who appear in sagas of Icelanders (family sagas), including such well known figures as Egill Skallagrimsson, Gisli Sursson and Grettir Asmundarson.


Collected together in this volume are long poems and stanzas attributed to the characters who appear in sagas of Icelanders (family sagas), including such well known figures as Egill Skallagrimsson, Gisli Sursson and Grettir Asmundarson. The poetry from twenty-four complete sagas and four short tales are edited here, together with two texts from non-saga manuscripts, including the scurrilous Grettisfrsla, ‘The Moving of Grettir’. The texts range chronologically from early poets’ sagas to late and little known works from the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

  • Edited by Margaret Clunies Ross
  • Edited by Kari Ellen Gade
  • Edited by Tarrin Wills