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Art and Literature from Iceland. Information about novels, books and works of Icelandic authors and painters. Featured artists are the writers Elías Snaeland Jónsson, Úlfar Harri Elíasson and Anna Kristín Brynjúlfsdóttir and the painter Brynjúlfur Jónsson. http://www.icestory.com

Birds in Death Throes Play by the writer Elías Snaeland Jónsson from Reykjavik, Iceland. Information on actors with interviews and pictures from a performance in a theater in Dresden, Germany. http://www.icestory.com/todeskampf.htm

The Chronicles of the Kings of Norway An online English translation of The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (or Heimskringla) by Snorri Sturluson. http://omacl.org/Heimskringla/

Culture Net Iceland Culture Net Iceland contains information about Icelandic culture and provides many links. http://www.culture.is/

Halldór Kiljan Laxness Nobel Laureate Biography and acceptance speech. http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1955/

Icelandic Sagas Information on the Sagas, medieval Icelandic literature. Includes an overview, online texts, and external links. http://phwibbles.com/sagas

Index of Icelandic Medieval Literature Texts about Icelandic sagas and Medieval Icelandic Literature. http://www.fva.is/~harpa/forn/engfvest.html

Jónas Hallgrímsson: Selected Poetry and Prose 50 works by the Icelandic poet and natural scientist Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845), with Icelandic text, audio recordings, English translations, extensive commentaries, and a biography. http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/

Jörmungrund Old Icelandic texts, primarily Eddaic and Skaldic poetry, with English translations, concordances, and commentaries. http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/

The Laxdaela Saga An online English translation of The Laxdaela Saga. This Saga was written around 1245 A.D. http://omacl.org/Laxdaela/

The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald (Kormáks saga) Written in Icelandic sometime between 1250 - 1300 A.D. http://omacl.org/Cormac/

The Saga of Grettir the Strong The Saga of Grettir the Strong was originally written in the early 14th century by an unknown author. http://omacl.org/Grettir/index.html

The Sagas of Icelanders in English Leifur Eiriksson Publishing has completed the first English translation of the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders together with the forty-nine Tales connected with them. http://notendur.centrum.is/~vinland

The Story of Burnt Njal (Njálssaga) An online English translation of The Story of Burnt Njal (Njálssaga or Njála in Icelandic), one of the more famous and dramatic Icelandic sagas. http://omacl.org/Njal/

The Story of the Ere-Dwellers (Eyrbyggja Saga) The Story of the Ere-Dwellers or Eyrbyggja Saga was written around the middle of the 13th century. http://omacl.org/EreDwellers/

The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga) with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda The quests of the hero Sigurd, originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) in the 13th century, e-text at the Online Medieval and Classical Library. http://omacl.org/Volsunga/