' In two I'll slice the hair-seat of Helga's kiss-gulper' In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia & Viking Britain two poets compete for the love of Helga the Fair
- with fatal consequences Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions The Icelandic Sagas were oral in origin & written down in the thirteenth & fourteenth centuries Other Icelandic Sagas available in Penguin Classics include Njal's Saga Egil's Saga Sagas of Warrior-Poets Gisli Sursson's Saga & the Saga of the People of Eyri The Saga of Grettir the Strong The Saga of the People of Laxardal & Bolli Bollason's Tale The Vinland Sagas & Comic Sagas from Iceland