Vestfirðingasögur

Vestfirðingasögur is a modern literary term under which a group of Icelandic sagas are sorted in Scandinavian Mediavistics . What these materials have in common is that they are set in the fjord region in western Iceland. In addition to the sagas, the group also includes pieces of short prose from the Þáttr - individual stories of Icelanders - including:

• Fóstbrœðra saga
• Gísla saga
• Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings
• Auðunar þáttr Vestfirzka
• Þorvarðar þáttr Krákunefs
• Hrómundar þáttr halta

literature

• Kurt Schier : saga literature . Metzler Collection, Vol. 78 Reality books for Germanists . Metzler, Stuttgart 1970.
• Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of Old Norse Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-49001-3 .