History of Iceland

by Gunnar Karlsson

Book Overview

The only comprehensive history of Iceland available in English.

The only comprehensive history of Iceland available in English.

Unique among European societies, Iceland was founded late, in the Viking Age, and has copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson, that country's premier historian, chronicles the age of the sagas, consulting them to describe an era without a monarch...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816635897
• ISBN13: 9780816635894
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"