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History and the sagasessay 1992 • Byock, Jesse L.
Icelanders • Europe > Scandinavia
Byock discusses the controversy among scholars as whether or not the Icelandic family sagas are works of fiction or are historically oriented toward actual events which took place in medieval times. Generally the sagas '… have been treated almost ent...