Norse sagas

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Norse sagas are medieval Icelandic prose narratives that recount the legendary heroes, gods, and historical events of the Norse and wider Scandinavian world.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Icelandic literature
medieval literature
prose narrative
saga literature
associatedWith Icelandic settlers
Vikings
containsSubgenre bishops' sagas
chivalric sagas
contemporary sagas
kings' sagas
legendary sagas
Íslendingasögur
linked to: Norse sagas
countryOfOrigin Iceland
culturalContext Norse culture
Scandinavian culture
describes Norse gods
Norse world
Scandinavian world
historical events
legendary heroes
developedIn medieval Iceland
genre prose
influenced Scandinavian national romanticism
modern fantasy literature
modern historical novels
influencedBy oral tradition
skaldic poetry
language Old Norse
linked to: Norse
literaryForm narrative
literaryTradition Germanic heroic tradition
notableExample Egils saga
linked to: Norse sagas

Grettis saga
Heimskringla
Laxdæla saga
Njáls saga
linked to: Norse sagas
preservedIn medieval manuscripts
settingLocation British Isles
Greenland
Iceland
North Atlantic
linked to: North Atlantic area

Norway
timePeriod Middle Ages
typicalTheme conversion to Christianity
exploration
fate
feud
honor
law and justice
writtenBy anonymous Icelandic authors

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Norse associatedWith Norse sagas
Viking Age documentedIn Icelandic sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
Greenlandic Norse source Icelandic sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
Norse sagas containsSubgenre Íslendingasögur
linked to: Norse sagas
Norse sagas notableExample Njáls saga
linked to: Norse sagas
Norse sagas notableExample Egils saga
linked to: Norse sagas
Icelanders traditionalLiterature Icelandic sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
Icelandic Canadians culturalHeritage Icelandic sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
Norse voyages to North America documentedIn Icelandic sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
Old Norse phonology documentedIn Icelandic sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
Valkyries appearIn Sagas
subject linked to: valkyries
linked to: Norse sagas
Prose Edda literaryTradition Icelandic saga literature
linked to: Norse sagas
Old Icelandic usedIn Icelandic sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
Old Icelandic hasCanonicalText Fornaldarsögur
linked to: Norse sagas
Erik the Red associatedWith Norse sagas
Geats mentionedIn Scandinavian sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
The Saga of King Olaf influencedBy Norse sagas
Nibelungenlied influencedBy Norse Völsung cycle
linked to: Norse sagas
Inga of Varteig describedBySource Old Norse sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
Vinland describedIn Norse sagas
Saga of Halfdan the Black traditionallyIncludedIn kings' sagas corpus
linked to: Norse sagas
Saga of Olaf Tryggvason relatedTo Norwegian kings' sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
Kringla manuscript genre kings' sagas
linked to: Norse sagas
the Red usedIn Norse sagas