Sagas were created around the 11th century in the Icelandic region. The vikings used sagas to record their history, folklore, and fictions. Some sagas are filled with legends while others contain stories about the travels of vikings such as Leif Eriksson. “The Sagas of the Greenlanders” and the “Erik the Red’s Saga,” written around […]
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Norse and Scandinavian sagas can be placed into one of several different categories. There were the king’s sagas, contemporary sagas, chivalric sagas, Icelander’s sagas, sagas of the Greenlanders, short tales of the Icelanders, and legendary sagas. Some of these classifications resemble modern categorizations of periodical literature. The king’s sagas are accounts of the lives of […]
Norse sagas: More than just myths and legends
Posted by: mmason11 | September 18, 2012 | No Comment |When modern people hear the word “saga,” images may come to mind of brawny Vikings heroically battling giant sea monsters, pillaging and plundering their way across unknown land, and drinking mead in the eternal halls of Valhalla. However, what most people don’t know is that sagas were used as more than just vehicles of fiction. […]