Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas

Selected by Gwyn Jones — the eminent Celtic scholar — for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "Gunnlaug Wormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.

• Author
• Unknown, Gwyn Jones

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 336

• Series
• Íslendingasögur/Sagas of Icelanders

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press, USA

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780192835307

• Genres
• history, classics, medieval, mythology, poetry, literature, folklore

• Release date
• 1999