Heiðarvíga saga

Heiðarvíga saga from a copy of the University of Copenhagen.

Heiðarvíga saga (listen (help·info)) 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 Icelandic scholar Jón Grunnvíkingur (1705–1779) who wrote down a summary of the saga from memory, which is the only form in which the saga's contents survive today. The saga has been taken by some scholars as possibly among the oldest Icelanders' sagas.

The saga tells of the descendants of Egil Skallagrímsson and the long-standing disputes and conflicts which culminated in the Battle of the Heath-Slayings (Heiðarvíga).^[1]

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Related reading[]

• Jesse Byock (1993) Feud in the Icelandic Saga (University of California Press) ISBN 978-0520082595
• Vidar Hreinsson (1997) The complete sagas of Icelanders, including 49 tales (Leifur Eiríksson Pub) ISBN 978-9979929307

External links[]

Look up launa lambið gráa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Bjarnar saga hítdælakappa Full text and English translation at the Icelandic Saga Database
• Heiðarvíga Saga The saga with standardized Modern Icelandic spelling
• Two Borgfirðinga sögur: the oldest or the youngest Íslendingasögur? Alison Finlay, University of London
• Proverbs and proverbial materials in Heiðarvíga saga

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