Icelandic Histories and Romances

<p><strong>The Icelandic sagas, composed between the twelfth and the nineteenth centuries, are one of the world''s great literary treasures.</strong> After an extended and lively introduction to the genre, Ralph O''Connor provides new translations for five of the greatest of these sagas. We encounter a humble Icelandic scholar dreaming of a Viking past, a royal adventurer evading the horrible lusts of troll-women, a demon popping out of a lavatory, the death spasms of the old Northern gods and unnatural acts in Muslim Germany. The sagas are evocatively illustrated by Anne O''Connor.</p>