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The Icelandic sagas is a far more extensive and sophisticated literature than anything produced in Europe at the same time.
by kryptiskt 12y ago
The Icelandic sagas is a far more extensive and sophisticated literature than anything produced in Europe at the same time.
- rpenm 12y agoThose were apparently written more than a hundred years after "the Viking Age" had ended.
- avar 12y agoAnd furthermore they mainly concern themselves with the internal strife of Iceland after the settlement. They're really important historically, mainly because they're pretty much the only thing from that time period that records the customs and affairs of common people and not royalty, but they have almost nothing to do with vikings.