Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders

This book provides an in-depth study of depictions of England in the Saga of Icelanders ( Íslendingasögur ), examining their utility as sources for the history of Viking Age Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact. The Íslendingasögur present themselves as histories, but they are difficult historical sources. Their setting is the Saga Age, a period that begins with the settlement of Iceland in the late ninth century and ends along with the Viking Age in the late eleventh century–however, the saga te