Heiðarvíga saga
Heiðarvíga saga from a copy of the University of Copenhagen.
Heiðarvíga saga (
listen ) or The Story of the Heath-Slayings is one of the Icelanders' sagas. It is badly preserved; 12 leaves of the only surviving manuscript were destroyed along with their only copy in the fire of Copenhagen in 1728. The content of that part is only known through a summary written from memory by Jón Grunnvíkingur who had made the lost copy.
The saga has been taken by some scholars as possibly among the oldest Icelanders' sagas.
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Look up launa lambið gráa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
- Full text and English translation at the Icelandic Saga Database
- The saga with standardized Modern Icelandic spelling
- English translation-1
- English translation-2
- Alison Finlay: Two Borgfirðinga sögur: the oldest or the youngest Íslendingasögur?
- Proverbs in Heiðarvíga saga.
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