Icelandic literature
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icelandic-literature-169-17712564
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Icelandic literature
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Icelandic literature refers to literature written in Iceland or by Icelandic people. It is best known for the sagas written in medieval times, starting in the 13th century. As Icelandic and Old Norse are almost the same, and because Icelandic works constitute most of Old Norse literature, Old Norse literature is often wrongly considered a subset of Icelandic literature. However, works by Norwegians are present in the standard reader Sýnisbók íslenzkra bókmennta til miðrar átjándu aldar, compiled
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_literature
date created:
2006-01-27T22:45:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T18:42:49Z
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