The Sagas of the Icelanders: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Penguin, 2005. Paperback. Very Fine. 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7. Paperback. Book Condition: Very Fine. Penguin, 2005. 852 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. Size: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7. 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 - 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 and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. History::European Classics/Collectors Series::Classics Pre-Modern History::Exploration::Ancient History::Medieval 0404 0404