![]() | Grettir's Saga
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $4.69 As Old Norse sagas moved into the heroic/mythic vein, Grettir takes the helm as the most conflicted anti-hero yet.
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![]() | Egil's Saga (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy used from: $1.32 Everyone's favorite poet-warrior. My favorite saga.
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![]() | Njal's Saga (Classics) by Magnus Magnusson
Buy used from: $0.42 Best of the family sagas. Focuses on a few feuding families around the time that Christianity came to Iceland.
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![]() | Laxdaela Saga (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy used from: $2.17 Love Triangles: Beyond Tristram & Iseult.
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![]() | Seven Viking Romances (Penguin Classics) by Hermann Palsson
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $1.74 Short & Sweet, these are lighter reading than the others.
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![]() | Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.90 Hrafnkel's Saga is funny, exciting, and typical of the family saga.
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![]() | The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $2.39 The Ring Cycle told Icelandic-style. There's romance, warrior-princesses, gods, and dragon-slaying.
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![]() | The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
Buy used from: $1.60 If you've heard of Erik the Red, here's the historical fact. These sagas cover the discovery and settlement of Greenland & North America.
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![]() | Erex Saga and Ivens Saga: The Old Norse Versions of Chretien De Troyes's Erec and Yvain
Buy used from: $15.00 Old Norse versions of Arthuriana (Chretien De Troyes) maintain their refreshing style while retelling the romances of the continent.
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![]() | The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology
Buy used from: $1.84 Not a saga perse, but gives a basis in Norse mythology
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![]() | The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)
Buy used from: $3.88 Also not a saga, rather the poetic expressions of the same culture.
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![]() | The Sagas of Icelanders: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $7.66 Includes Gisli's saga, a tale of family loyalties gone wrong and a cunning outlaw
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