Bibliography I of IV · Annotated

New Works Inspired by Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

A

Allen, Hervey. “Saga of Leif the Lucky.” The Bookman, vol. 58, no. 4, Dec. 1923, pp. 395-403.

Poem · English
A poem based on Eiríks saga rauða written in English

Arnold, Matthew. Balder Dead. 1855.

Poem · English
A poem based on the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda written in English

B

Bellows, Henry Adams. “The death-song of Egill the son of Grim.” Highland light and other poems. New York, 1921, pp. 45-53.

Poem · English
A poem based on Egils saga Skallagrímssonar written in English

Bellows, Henry Adams. “On an Icelandic Skald.” Highland light and other poems. New York, 1921, pp. 79.

Poem · English
A poem based on Egils saga Skallagrímssonar written in English

C

Chapin, Henry. Leif saga: a narrative poem of the Norse discoveries of America. Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.

Poem · English
A poem based on Eiríks saga rauða written in English

Coxe, Maria M. Son oʼ the North: a saga of Leif the Lucky, and other verses. H. Vinal, 1930.

Poem · English
A poem based on Eiríks saga rauða written in English

G

Gray, Thomas. The Descent of Odin. 1768.

Poem · English
A poem based on the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda written in English

Gray, Thomas. The Fatal Sisters. 1768.

Poem · English
A poem based on Njáls saga written in English

Green, W.C. “Two Sagas from Iceland (I. Gunnar’s Death. II. The Burning of Njal).” Blackwood’s Magazine, no. 147, 1890, pp. 103-14.

Poem · English
A poem based on Njáls saga written in English

K

Kellett, E.E. The Passing of Scyld and other poems. London, 1902.

Poem · English
Poetry based on Eiríks saga rauða, Grænlendinga saga, Eyrbyggja saga, and Landnámabók written in English

L

Landor, Walter Savage. “Gunlaug and Helga.” Complete Works 13. Chapman & Hall, 1933.

Poem · English
A poem based on Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu written in English

Leighton, William. Kormak, an Icelandic Romance of the Tenth Century. Boston, 1861.

Poem · English
A poem based on Kormáks saga written in English

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, “The Saga of King Olaf.” Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1863.

Poem · English
A poem based on Heimskringla written in English

M

MacNeice, Louis. “Eclogue from Iceland.” Letters from Iceland. 1937.

Poem · English
A poem partly based on Grettis saga written in English.

Morris, William. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs. Ellis and White, 1876.

Poem · English
A poem based on the Poetic Edda and Volsunga saga written in English.

O

Ottis, G.E. Thurid and other poems. Boston, 1874, pp. 1-34.

Poem · English
Poetry based on Eyrbyggja saga written in English

T

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. HarperCollins, 2009.

Poem · English
A poem based on the Poetic Edda and Völsunga saga written in English.

All 207 entries from the original bibliography.

About these bibliographies

The bibliographies and links were begun in 2019 with the support of the Department of Icelandic Language and Literature and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba.

The first is annotated with the major sources each new work draws on. None claims to be comprehensive.

Credits

Editors: Christopher Crocker, Dustin Geeraert, Selina Heidinger Web Design & Technical Editor: Ryan E. Johnson Additional Research: Austin Quagleini With thanks to Migration: The 9th UM / University of Iceland Partnership Conference, From Iceland to the Americas, and The Afterlife of Eddas and Sagas.