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Icelandic literature

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saga

  • In saga

    …entertain the household, known as sagnaskemmtun (“saga entertainment”). It seems to have replaced the traditional art of storytelling. All kinds of written narratives were used in sagnaskemmtun—secular, sacred, historical, and legendary. The Icelandic church took a sympathetic view of the writing and reading of sagas, and many of the authors…

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