The Icelandic Sagas

Magnusson, Magnus edits and introduces

Two vols. Twenty-two of the 'Sagas of Icelanders' from the forty still extant; written circa eleventh century and later; medieval Iceland: archetypal situations, attempts at colonising Vinland (North America), family feuds, and the cold; illustrated by John Vernon Lord; 1500+pp., glossary of names.

Publisher: The Folio Society. Reprints 2001-2002
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Matching cloth and pictorial boards. A little edgewear, else fine as issued without dustwrappers and without the slipcase The two vols.


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