"The sagas and tales in this book are reprinted from the Complete sagas of Icelanders I-V, published 1997 by Leifur Eiríksson Publishing, Iceland, with minor alterations"--P. [lviii]. Egil's saga / ...

—The Icelandic antiquary Torfæus, in his small works Gronlandia and Vinlandia, published in the Latin in 1705, first drew the attention of scholars to the historical element in the Vinland Sagas; and ...

If you've browsed a dusty old Viking saga and thought you’d need a full translation or an ancient rune decoder to make sense of it, then you’re not alone. However, on the island of Iceland, something ...

“I follow Latin traces from Icelandic manuscripts, but the Latin written material in Iceland has been forgotten. Previous research has focused mostly on texts in Old Norse in Icelandic manuscripts,” ...

As chronicled in the Sagas of Icelanders, Norwegian sailors (often called Vikings), founded two small colonies near the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, Canada, and a second site in southwestern ...

The Saga Museum brings Iceland's Viking history to life through realistic silicone figures depicting significant moments in Icelandic history. Visitors can immerse themselves in the sagas, listen to ...

Hundreds of years ago, Icelanders entertained one another with Viking sagas — epic, blood-curdling tales about the raiding and pillaging of foreign lands. Today, there are new sagas being told on the ...

Viking explorer Leif Erikson is remembered with a large statue in front of the landmark church Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik, Iceland. Thanks to famous tales of discovery involving the likes of Erik ...