Eyrbyggja Saga (Palsson transl. - Penguin ed.)

Author: Anonymous

Translator: Hermann Pálsson

ISBN: 9780140445305

Binding: paperback

Section: Literature of the Middle Ages

An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society.