Laxdaela Saga
translated by Magnus Magnusson

Of all the major Icelandic sagas, Laxdæla Saga has always stirred the European imagination the most profoundly.

Composed by an unknown author (c. 1245) at a time when the Age of Chivalry was in its fullest flower in continental Europe, Laxdæla Saga is a dynastic chronicle that sweeps from generation to generation across 150 years of Iceland's early history. It is best known for the story of Gudrun Osvif's daughter, the imperious beauty forced to marry her lover's best friend, who is enshrined forever in the gallery of great tragi-romantic heroines of world literature.

Laxdæla Saga, the record of a land caught between the pioneering demands of settlement and the intellectual rigours of Christianity, bestows dignity and grandeur on this nation's past.

ZC2189    Laxdaela Saga                                         $12.95

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