Download or read book Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "Gunnlaug Wormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.