The Sagas of Icelanders

Preface by Jane Smiley, Introduction by Robert Kellogg

ISBN 10: 0670889903 / ISBN 13: 9780670889907

Published by Viking, 2000

About this Item

Hardcover with dustjacket : fine / like new. Book: tail of spine a little crumpled, otherwise like new. 782 pgaes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 132811

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sagas of Icelanders
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0670889903
• ISBN 13: 9780670889907
• Binding: Hard Cover with Dustjacket
• Edition: Book Club Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Myth / Folklore / Fairy Tales / Ghosts

About this title

Synopsis

Published in conjunction with the 1,000th anniversary of Leif Eriksson's voyage to America, the Viking "Sagas" commemorate the adventures of the people who first settled Iceland, and then explored Greenland and North America. 20,000 first printing.

Review

"One of the great marvels of World Literature.... This is a dream come true." --Ted Hughes

"A testimony to the human spirit's ability not only to endure what fate may send it but to be renewed by the experience." --Seamus Heaney

"The glory of the Sagas is indisputable." --Milan Kundera

"Generally excellent, accurate and readable, these translations are sure to become the standard versions." --The Times Literary Supplement (London)