A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives an
Icelandic Saga Heroes: The Anthropology of Natural Existentialists
โ Scribed by E. Paul Durrenberger
- Book ID
- 111824311
- Publisher
- American Anthropological Association
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 577 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1559-9167
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In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's great literary treasures โ as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these