Sagas of the Icelandersl horse theme Gáttaþefur or Doorway Sniffer

Gáttaþefur or Doorway Sniffer

A sleepy sheepy from Iceland

Size: 307 mm /12

Vala the Viking  travels around Godheim together with her ship

Sagas of the Icelandersl horse theme Gáttaþefur or Doorway SnifferIn Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's great literary treasures as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who