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The prose literature of medieval Iceland is a great world treasure –
elaborate, various, strange, profound, and as eternally current as any of the
other great literary treasures – the Homeric epics, Dante’s Divine Comedy,
the works of William Shakespeare or of any modern writer you could
name. Mysteries surround these stories – how were they composed and by
whom? what were the motives of the authors? why were they written in
prose when the currency of medieval literature was poetry? how did their
contemporaries understand them – did they even read them, or did they
hear them read aloud? But the questions fall away as we read the sagas
and tales themselves. They are written with such immediacy and
forthrightness and they concern such basic human dilemmas that for the
most part they are readily accessible and seductive. Reading one creates
the appetite for another and another. In the present volume, Penguin has
drawn upon the newly translated and edited Complete Sagas of Icelanders to
offer the English-speaking reader a rich selection of Icelandic prose. Long
and short, complex and simple, fantastic and realistic – there is a taste of
everything here, an abundant introduction to a world a thousand years
separated from ours, both intensely familiar and intensely strange