Þorsteins saga hvíta () is one of the
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 el ...
from the 13th century. The short story takes place in the east of Iceland in the 9th century.
The main theme of the story is about the tragic consequences of the vengeance of Torstein Kvite (''Þorsteinn hvíti'') on his former friend Einarr Þórisson, who had spread rumors that he was dead in order to be able to marry Torstein's fiancée Helga Krákadóttir.
References
Other sources
*Jónas Kristjánsson (1997)
Eddas and Sagas: Iceland's Medieval Literature' (Reykjavik: Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag. Peter Foote, trans)
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 specia ...
(1993)
Feud in the Icelandic Saga' (University of California Press)
External links
Full text and translations at the Icelandic Saga Database
Sagas of Icelanders
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