- Sturlunga saga
Sturlunga saga (often called simply Sturlunga) is a collection of Icelandic sagas by various authors from the 12th and 13th centuries; it was assembled ca.
1300 . It mostly deals with the story of theSturlungs , a powerful family clan during the "Sturlungaöld " period of theIcelandic Commonwealth .Sturlunga saga begins with the
legend ofGeirmundr heljarskinn , a regional ruler in late 9th century Norway, who moves to Iceland to escape the growing power of King Harald Finehair. The more historical sagas commence in1117 with "Þorgils saga ok Hafliða ". Other sagas included in the collection are "Sturlu saga ", "Prestsaga Guðmundar Arasonar " and "Íslendinga saga ", which constitutes almost half the Sturlunga saga and covers the period1183 –1264 .Sturlunga saga is the main source of Icelandic history during the 12th and 13th centuries and it was written by people who experienced the internal power struggle which ended in Iceland's loss of sovereignty and submission to
Norway in1262 .External links
* [http://sagnanet.is/saganet/?MIval=/SinglePage&Manuscript=100286&Page=11&language=english Sturlunga Saga, including the Islendinga Saga of Lawman Sturla Thordson and Other Works] Edited with prolegomena, appendices, tables, indices and maps by Dr.
Gudbrand Vigfusson . Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1878.
* [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0ubUUdkt_OLBSGZ-5nM&id=OPwqAAAAMAAJ Sturlúnga-Saga edr Íslendinga-Saga hin mikla: Volume 1.] [http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=wPsqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=sturlunga%2Bsaga&lr=&as_brr=1 Volume 2, Part 1.] [http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=wPsqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA321&vq=deild&dq=sturlunga%2Bsaga&lr=&as_brr=1 Volume 2, Part 2] Edited with a preface in Icelandic and Danish by Bjarni Þorsteinsson. Published in Copenhagen by Þorsteinn Einarsson Rangel: 1817, 1818 and 1820 respectively.
* [http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/Sturlunga1.htm Geirmundar þáttr heljarskinns] (Old Norse text based on Gudbrand Vigfusson's edition) translated into English as [http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/Geirmund.htm The Tale of Geirmund Deathskin]
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