This resource gathers modern literary works, including novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and graphic novels, adapted from medieval Icelandic saga writing. Its focus is adaptations or retellings of specific saga narratives rather than works that borrow familiar characters, settings, or motifs to tell wholly (or mostly whole) original stories.
The database is constantly being updated and, at present, contains more than 270 entries from 16 countries in 11 different languages. spanning the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Future plans include a fully filterable, and searchable interface.
Please note that I have not read or closely examined every text listed in the database. Much of the data has been culled from scholarly, articles, books, and book chapters. A bibliography of these and other sources on Old Norse-Icelandic literary medievalism can be found here.
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Note: If you make significant use of this database in your research, please be sure to cite it so that others can find and use it.
Christopher W. E. Crocker 