Talk:Sagas of Icelanders

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Shouldn't this be titled Icelandic saga? If the contents were to be moved to that title, then Sagas should redirect to Norse Saga. See also: Norse saga (the more general category) and saga (disambiguation).
--210.136.3.152 01:08, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I made a REDIRECT from Icelandic Saga. Gangleri 23:26, 2004 Oct 27 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] not mentioned

Maybe the article should mention how boring and repetitive the sagas are and how no story goes anywhere for more than a few paragraphs? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.163.0.43 (talk) 16:28, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vinland and Markland

The present article needs links to other articles, which I have done by mentioning Vinland and Markland. Other links should be entered to improve this article. Peterlewis 07:59, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move to "Sagas of Icelanders"

I propose this page be moved to the above, which is the scholarly term for this particular genre of sagas. --dllu 11:36, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Sure, that may well be a better title. I don't know if one is more scholarly than the other but the variant you suggest seems to be much more common. I see I originally moved the article here because this is the title Britannica uses [1] Haukur 11:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
No objections so I went ahead and moved it. Haukur 11:42, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Britannica? Really? I don't think I have ever seen "Icelanders' sagas" in any book on the subject. It's either SoI or Family sagas. Also I think the "of"-construction would be preferred over the s-genitive in most cases like this. Anyway, thanks for moving it. I corrected the first sentence to correspond. --dllu 18:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
*shrug* We have kings' sagas, I think that's about as common as sagas of kings. Haukur 19:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Total List

Does anyone know how many Icelandic sagas there are? I think there is a publicized collection of 49 claiming to be complete, but I only count 42, which comes to 45 if you include the variations. Does anyone know what the others are? Even if there aren't articles on them, they should be included in the list. --dotDarkCloud (talk) 16:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)