دانلود کتاب Bandamanna saga

Glossary made by Peter Foote. Introduction and Notes englished by Peter Foote and Sue Margeson.

"Bandamanna saga" (hereafter B) belongs to the type of sagas known as Sagas of Icelanders (or Family Sagas). The main characters in these sagas are mostly Icelanders and the events they describe are mostly set in Iceland during the period from the settlement (A.D. 870-930) to the early eleventh century {c. 1030) when the Viking Age had ended and Christianity was firmly established in both Norway and Iceland. But B is distinctive among Sagas of Icelanders in that almost all its action belongs to a time subsequent to this period. From what is otherwise known about some of the people involved in the story we must imagine that the chief events take place in the 1050s. And while the action in Sagas of Icelanders normally covers a relatively long period, often several generations or at least the life-span of one main character, the central action in B (disregarding Oddr Ofeigsson's youth) takes only a little over four years...

The aim of the present edition is to introduce "Bandamanna saga" to students in a text as close as possible to what the author wrote... The text has generally been normalised in accordance with the practice of the editors of "Islenzk fornrit". This normalisation reflects the state of the Icelandic language in the first half of the thirteenth century.