Laxdaela Saga Summary

Laxdaela Saga Summary

The Laxdaela Saga is one of the most famous Icelandic Sagas of the Middle Ages. The work is an early piece of romantic writing, with a passionate lovers' quarrel lying deep at its center, something unusual for the literature preceding it. The saga ranges over a two-hundred year period, between about 870 and 1073 A.D. in medieval Iceland and (to a much lesser extent) Norway. It follows two family lineages throughout this...

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