The Saga of the Jómsvikings - (The Northern Medieval World) by Alison Finlay & þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir (Paperback)

About the Book

Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jómsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, who established an island fortress on the Baltic coast and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan

Book Synopsis

Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jomsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in English, with a full literary and historical introduction to this remarkable work.

About the Author

Alison Finlay, University of London, UK; þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.