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  Halldór Kiljan Laxness Nobel Laureate - http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1955/
Biography and acceptance speech.
  Culture Net Iceland - http://www.culture.is/
Culture Net Iceland contains information about Icelandic culture and provides many links.
  Jörmungrund - http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/
Old Icelandic texts, primarily Eddaic and Skaldic poetry, with English translations, concordances, and commentaries.
  Jónas Hallgrímsson: Selected Poetry and Prose - http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/
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.
  Icelandic Sagas - http://phwibbles.com/sagas
Information on the Sagas, medieval Icelandic literature. Includes an overview, online texts, and external links.
  Art and Literature from Iceland. - http://www.icestory.com
Information about novels, books and works of Icelandic authors and painters. Featured artists are the writers Elías Snæland Jónsson, Úlfar Harri Elíasson and Anna Kristín Brynjúlfsdóttir and the painter Brynjúlfur Jónsson.
  Index of Icelandic Medieval Literature - http://www.fva.is/~harpa/forn/engfvest.html
Texts about Icelandic sagas and Medieval Icelandic Literature.
  Birds in Death Throes - http://www.icestory.com/todeskampf.htm
Play by the writer Elías Snæland Jónsson from Reykjavik, Iceland. Information on actors with interviews and pictures from a performance in a theater in Dresden, Germany.
  The Chronicles of the Kings of Norway - http://omacl.org/Heimskringla/
An online English translation of The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (or Heimskringla) by Snorri Sturluson.
  The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga) with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda - http://omacl.org/Volsunga/
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.
  The Story of Burnt Njal (Njálssaga) - http://omacl.org/Njal/
An online English translation of The Story of Burnt Njal (Njálssaga or Njála in Icelandic), one of the more famous and dramatic Icelandic sagas.
  The Saga of Grettir the Strong - http://omacl.org/Grettir/index.html
The Saga of Grettir the Strong was originally written in the early 14th century by an unknown author.
  The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald (Kormáks saga) - http://omacl.org/Cormac/
Written in Icelandic sometime between 1250 - 1300 A.D.
  The Story of the Ere-Dwellers (Eyrbyggja Saga) - http://omacl.org/EreDwellers/
The Story of the Ere-Dwellers or Eyrbyggja Saga was written around the middle of the 13th century.
  The Laxdaela Saga - http://omacl.org/Laxdaela/
An online English translation of The Laxdaela Saga. This Saga was written around 1245 A.D.
  The Sagas of Icelanders in English - http://notendur.centrum.is/~vinland
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.

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