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THE SAGAS OF THE ICELANDERS: Egil's Saga; People of Vatnsdal; People of Laxardal; The Greenlanders; Eirik the Red; Hrafnkel Frey's Godi; Tale of Halldor Snorrason II; The Confederates; Gisli Sursson's Saga; Gunnlaug Serpent Tongue; Ref the Sly by Robert Kellogg (Introduction), Jane Smiley (Introduction) Paperback, 782 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-14-100003-1 / 0141000031 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-100003-9 / 9780141000039 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 |