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From the 8th to the 15th centuries, Vikings and Norse settlers and their descendants colonised parts of what is now modern Scotland. Some Old Norse poetry survives relating to this period. The Orkneyinga saga (also called the History of the Earls of Orkney ) is a historical narrative of the history of the Orkney Islands , from their capture by ...
Scandinavian literature or Nordic literature is the literature in the languages of the Nordic countries of Northern Europe. The Nordic countries include Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway (including Svalbard ), Sweden, and Scandinavia's associated autonomous territories ( Åland , Faroe Islands and Greenland ).
Old Norse poetry is associated with the area now referred to as Scandinavia. Much Old Norse poetry was originally preserved in oral culture, but the Old Norse language ceased to be spoken and later writing tended to be confined to history rather than for new poetic creation, which is normal for an extinct language. Modern knowledge of Old Norse ...
Best known are the Norse sagas, the Icelanders' sagas and the mythological literature, but there also survives a large body of religious literature, translations into Old Norse of courtly romances, classical mythology, and the Old Testament, as well as instructional material, grammatical treatises and a large body of letters and official documents.
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The History of the Norwegian People. MacMillan. Griffiths, Tony (2004). Scandinavia; at War with Trolls. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 1-4039-6776-8; Grøndahl, Carl Henrik and Nina Tjomsland (editors) (1978). The Literary Masters of Norway, with Samples of Their Works. Tanum-Norli, Oslo. Larson, Karen (1948). A History of Norway. Princeton ...
Summer in the Greenland coast c.1000 by Carl Rasmussen Possible routes traveled in Saga of Eric the Red and Saga of the Greenlanders. The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic texts written independently of each other in the early 13th century—The Saga of the Greenlanders (Grænlendinga Saga) and The Saga of Erik the Red (Eiríks Saga Rauða).
This is a list of Norwegian literature authors in the order of their year of birth. The century assignment is the period of their most significant works. The century assignment is the period of their most significant works.