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Valla-Ljóts Saga
Valla-Ljóts saga () is one of the sagas of Icelanders dating from the 13th century. The saga tells of events in Svarfaðardalur during and after the introduction of Christianity. The saga can be seen as a continuation of '' Svarfdœla saga'' which is set in the same vicinity. The saga centers on chieftains Ljót Ljótólfsson from Völlum in Svarfaðardalur and his opponent Gudmund Eyjólfsson the mighty (''Guðmundr inn ríki Eyjólfsson''). See also *Ljósvetninga saga Ljósvetninga saga () is one of the sagas of Icelanders, commonly dated to the thirteenth century and takes place between the end of the tenth century to the mid-eleventh century in the North of Iceland. The saga's main character is Guðmundr inn r ... Edition * Peter A. Jorgensen (Ed.): ''Valla-Ljóts Saga''. Bilingual Edition (Icelandic/English) of MS AM 161 fol. Saarbrücken, AQ-Verlag 1991. . References External linksFull text at the Icelandic Saga Database Sagas of Icelanders {{Iceland-sag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagas Of Icelanders
The sagas of Icelanders ( is, Íslendingasögur, ), also known as family sagas, are one genre of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries, during the so-called Saga Age. They were written in Old Icelandic, a western dialect of Old Norse. They are the best-known specimens of Icelandic literature. They are focused on history, especially genealogical and family history. They reflect the struggle and conflict that arose within the societies of the early generations of Icelandic settlers. The Icelandic sagas are valuable and unique historical sources about medieval Scandinavian societies and kingdoms, in particular in regards to pre-Christian religion and culture. Eventually many of these Icelandic sagas were recorded, mostly in the 13th and 14th centuries. The 'authors', or rather recorders of these sagas are largely unknown. One saga, ''Egil's Saga'', is beli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svarfaðardalur .
About 10 km from the sea the valley splits in two. The eastern oneis called Skíðadalur and it keeps the main direction of the valley to the southwest, while the other one keeps the name Svarfaðardalur. Numerous small valleys branch off from the main valleys in between the mountains. There are small glaciers in many many of in these valleys. The largest glacier is Svarfaðardalur (, " Svörfuður's valley") is a large valley in central north Iceland. It is a part of the Dalvíkurbyggð municipality. The Svarfaðardalsá River flows down the valley, having its mouth near to the town of Dalvík Dalvík () is the main village of the Icelandic municipality of Dalvíkurbyggð. Its population is approximately 1,400. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljósvetninga Saga
Ljósvetninga saga () is one of the sagas of Icelanders, commonly dated to the thirteenth century and takes place between the end of the tenth century to the mid-eleventh century in the North of Iceland. The saga's main character is Guðmundr inn ríki Eyjólfsson, a powerful chieftain from North-Iceland's Eyjafjörður district. In the early-twentieth century it was an important part of the freeprose-bookprose debate of the oral vs. literary origins of the sagas of Icelanders, due to its problematic manuscript transmission. Authorship and Dating The author of the saga is unknown as the work is anonymous. Nevertheless, Icelandic scholar Barði Guðmundsson (1900-1957) argued that its author was Þórðr Þorvarðsson, an historically obscure son-in-law of thirteenth-century magnate and author Sturla Þórðarson. The saga's Íslenzk fornit editor has dated both version of the saga to mid-thirteenth century due mostly to its literary connections with ''Njáls saga'' and historical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
