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Art and Literature from Iceland.
Information about novels, books and works of Icelandic authors and painters. Featured artists are the writers Elías Snæland Jónsson, Úlfar Harri Elíasson and Anna Kristín Brynjúlfsdóttir and the painter Brynjúlfur Jónsson.
Birds in Death Throes
http://www.icestory.com/todeskampf.htm
Play by the writer Elías Snæland Jónsson from Reykjavik, Iceland. Information on actors with interviews and pictures from a performance in a theater in Dresden, Germany.
Culture Net Iceland
Culture Net Iceland contains information about Icelandic culture and provides many links.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness Nobel Laureate
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1955/
Biography and acceptance speech.
Icelandic Sagas
Information on the Sagas, medieval Icelandic literature. Includes an overview, online texts, and external links.
Index of Icelandic Medieval Literature
http://www.fva.is/~harpa/forn/engfvest.html
Texts about Icelandic sagas and Medieval Icelandic Literature.
Jónas Hallgrímsson: Selected Poetry and Prose
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/
50 works by the Icelandic poet and natural scientist Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845), with Icelandic text, audio recordings, English translations, extensive commentaries, and a biography.
Jörmungrund
Old Icelandic texts, primarily Eddaic and Skaldic poetry, with English translations, concordances, and commentaries.
The Chronicles of the Kings of Norway
http://omacl.org/Heimskringla/
An online English translation of The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (or Heimskringla) by Snorri Sturluson.
The Laxdaela Saga
An online English translation of The Laxdaela Saga. This Saga was written around 1245 A.D.
The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald (Kormáks saga)
Written in Icelandic sometime between 1250 - 1300 A.D.
The Saga of Grettir the Strong
http://omacl.org/Grettir/index.html
The Saga of Grettir the Strong was originally written in the early 14th century by an unknown author.
The Sagas of Icelanders in English
http://notendur.centrum.is/~vinland
Leifur Eiriksson Publishing has completed the first English translation of the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders together with the forty-nine Tales connected with them.
The Story of Burnt Njal (Njálssaga)
An online English translation of The Story of Burnt Njal (Njálssaga or Njála in Icelandic), one of the more famous and dramatic Icelandic sagas.
The Story of the Ere-Dwellers (Eyrbyggja Saga)
The Story of the Ere-Dwellers or Eyrbyggja Saga was written around the middle of the 13th century.
