Leifur Eiriksson Publishing

28/07/2020

(from minute 22) Sir Christopher Lee on an Icelandic talk show in 1993 about the sagas, Tolkien, Scandinavian cinema and the Wicker Man...: "When you read them, you really believe that you are reading about real people..."

04/02/2020

Those looking for an introductory selection rather than the complete set should check out our this bestselling result of our collaboration with Penguin (we trust you'll come back for more once you've had a taste of the brilliance of the sagas). Also available from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Sagas-Icelanders-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0141000031

A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives...

31/12/2019

Wishing all saga fans out there a very happy new year.

Illustration by Danish artist Karin Birgitte Lund from the Nordic languages editions. Check out her website at https://www.karinbirgittelund.dk/

13/12/2019

13/12/2019

We're now listed on Amazon...

The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, from Leifur Eiriksson Publishing, is the first English translation of the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders together with the forty-nine tales connected with them. Thirty translators were carefully selected for the project, including leading international ...

09/12/2019

09/12/2019

09/12/2019