In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world s great 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 and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. Sailing as far from the archetypal heroic adventure as the long ships did from home, the Sagas are written with psychological intensity, peopled by characters with depth, and explore perennial human issues like love, hate, fate and freedom.
Autorentext
Autorentext
Jane Smiley
Titel
Sagas of the Icelanders
Autor
EAN
9780141933269
ISBN
978-0-14-193326-9
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
24.02.2005
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
7.99 MB
Anzahl Seiten
348
Jahr
2005
Untertitel
Englisch
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