Story, World and Character in the Late Íslendingasögur

Argues for new models of reading the complexity and subversiveness of fourteen "post-classical" sagas. The late Sagas of Icelanders, thought to be written in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, have hitherto received little scholarly attention. Previous generations of critics have unfavourably compared them to "classical" Íslendingasögur and fornaldarsögur , leading modern audiences to project their expectations onto narratives that do not adhere to simple taxonomies and preconceived notions