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From sagas to societyessay 1992 • Bagge, Sverre
Early Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
For many years the Icelandic sagas were largely foresaken as a factual source of information on early Iceland, in favor of skaldic poetry, archaeological evidence, and written laws and diplomas representative of this period. In essence, the sagas see...