Haukur wrote:

>As to the choice of text I think Arlie put down
>the criteria rather well. I think Hreiðars þáttr
>would do nicely (and it is available online) but
>my personal recommendation would be Eireks saga
>víðförla.

Another good choice, used by my Icelandic class, is Þorsteins þáttur
stangarhöggs - not only is it fairly short, but it introduces a number of
concepts basic to Icelandic sagas helpful for non-Icelanders. It's at:

http://www.snerpa.is/net/isl/stangar.htm

By-the-by, I've had great fun raiding that site in general, as they've been
busy putting up normalised versions of a large number of Icelandic texts -
the complete list is at:

http://www.snerpa.is/net/alltefni.htm

It's the first place I found Grettis saga Ásmundarson in the original,
which is easily one of my favourites - he was an antihero centuries before
anyone coined the term.

-Selv

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