Sagas and Stories

The earliest literature from Scandinavia is poetrythe earliest literature from any given place is always poetry, because its easy to memorize and so can predate writingbut some time a little before the thirteenth century people in Iceland and Norway started writing a new kind of work in prose. These were called sagas, and they were sometimes records of historical figures, and sometimes records of mythological figures, and sometimes they were just made-up stories about made-up peoplethey were...