saga n : a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally, a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants.
Here you will find the text of several Icelandic sagas. Please follow the subpages for the sagas.
The text has been gathered from the Icelandic Saga Database.
Sagas of the Icelanders — a large body of medieval literature which forms the foundation of the Icelandic literary tradition. The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and 11th centuries AD.
The sagas are believed to have been written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries AD, perhaps originating in an oral tradition of storytelling.
