Guide to the Classics: The Icelandic Saga

Iceland has been in the news quite a lot lately, mainly because of its young soccer team’s outstanding performance in the Euro 2016 football tournament.

Icelandic sagas are under-appreciated in the world of European literature. Oscar Wergeland [Public domain]/Wikimedia Commons

Iceland has been in the news quite a lot lately, mainly because of its young soccer team’s outstanding performance in the Euro 2016 football tournament. And there has also been a surge of general interest in other aspects of Icelandic culture, including modern Icelandic literature.

Halldor Laxness. Nobel Foundation/Public Domain