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Idun Haugan/Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, and it is said that one in two Icelanders writes books. This literary tradition stretches all the way back to the Middle Ages.
“Previously, the theory was that Iceland was so dark and barren that the Icelanders had to fill their lives with storytelling and poetry to compensate for this. But Icelanders were certainly part of Europe and had a lot of contact with Britain, Germany, Denmark and Norway, among others,” said Tom Lorenz, a PhD research fellow at the Department of Language and Literature at NTNU who is hunting down hidden and forgotten pieces of Iceland’s Sagas’ literary history. “The Icelanders were part of a common European culture, and Iceland has been a great knowledge society for a long time.”
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Royal Lineage
We can thank the Icelanders for our relatively good overview of the royal lineage in Norway, right from the early Viking Age up to the death of Magnus V Erlingsson in 1184. Icelandic “skalds” were skilled and sought after, and Norwegian kings engaged skalds to ensure that their story and their feats would be told and passed on.