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''Heiðarvíga saga'' () or ''The Story of the Heath-Slayings'' is one of the
Bjarnar saga hítdælakappa
Full text and English translation at the Icelandic Saga Database
The saga with standardized Modern Icelandic spelling
''Two Borgfirðinga sögur: the oldest or the youngest Íslendingasögur?''
Alison Finlay, University of London
Sagas of Icelanders {{Iceland-saga-stub
''Heiðarvíga saga'' () or ''The Story of the Heath-Slayings'' is one of the Icelanders' sagas
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 el ...
. It is badly preserved; 12 leaves of the only surviving manuscript were destroyed along with their only copy in the fire of Copenhagen in 1728. The content of the destroyed portion is only known through a summary written from memory by Icelandic scholar Jón Grunnvíkingur (1705–1779). This is the only form in which the saga's contents survive today. The saga has been taken by some scholars as possibly among the oldest Icelanders' sagas.
The saga tells of the descendants of Egil Skallagrímsson and the long-standing disputes and conflicts which culminated in the Battle of the Heath-Slayings (''Heiðarvíga'').
References
Related reading
*Jesse Byock
Jesse L. Byock (born 1945) is Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies in the Scandinavian Section at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. An archaeologist and special ...
(1993) ''Feud in the Icelandic Saga'' (University of California Press)
*Vidar Hreinsson (1997) ''The complete sagas of Icelanders, including 49 tales'' (Leifur Eiríksson Pub)
External links
Bjarnar saga hítdælakappa
Full text and English translation at the Icelandic Saga Database
The saga with standardized Modern Icelandic spelling
''Two Borgfirðinga sögur: the oldest or the youngest Íslendingasögur?''
Alison Finlay, University of London
Sagas of Icelanders {{Iceland-saga-stub