Fire and Iron

Critical Approaches to Njáls saga

• Author(s): Richard F. Allen,
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 0822975904
  ISBN_13: 9780822975908
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / Scandinavian ,

Description:... Written in Iceland by an unknown author about 1280, Njals saga has been called the greatest work of vernacular prose fiction from the European Middle Ages. Allen's finely written and perceptive study is one of the first in English to offer a critical examination of the text.