A detailed review of Icelandair’s Saga Lounge at Keflavík Airport—a serene, authentically Icelandic haven for premium and ...
When I travel, I always try to find one to three novels that explain a country’s past and capture its character and values. This novel by Iceland’s Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1955 is that ...
The Saga Museum brings Iceland's Viking history to life through realistic silicone figures depicting significant moments in Icelandic history. Visitors can immerse themselves in the sagas, listen to ...
Hundreds of years ago, Icelanders entertained one another with Viking sagas — epic, blood-curdling tales about the raiding and pillaging of foreign lands. Today, there are new sagas being told on the ...
—The Icelandic antiquary Torfæus, in his small works Gronlandia and Vinlandia, published in the Latin in 1705, first drew the attention of scholars to the historical element in the Vinland Sagas; and ...
Let’s jump back to the Sagas of Iceland − stories handed down through hundreds of years, some seem to be folklore, others a way of explaining the natural world to people living on the land. But our ...
“I follow Latin traces from Icelandic manuscripts, but the Latin written material in Iceland has been forgotten. Previous research has focused mostly on texts in Old Norse in Icelandic manuscripts,” ...