Heill Jed,

If you're looking for good maps of the settings for these sagas, the Íslenzk Fornrit series, in addition to the original texts, also often has very detailed maps of where the sagas are set. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a scanner, or I would scan some of them, but if anyone can find copies (any good University should have the series) and scan them, they'd be just what you're looking for.

Kveðja,

Dan

Gerald Mcharg wrote:

Good evening all, (10.30 p.m. British Summer Time)

 

Laurel has kindly posted a map and I have found other maps of Iceland at the Tiscali website. The scales range from 1: 2000,000 up to 1:50,000, but they only show the locations of towns and settlements; there are no topographical features.

 

If I had suitable maps and a scanner, I would gladly put them on line, because they do provide an extra dimension to history and legend. Tolkein's maps of Middle Earth are the classical example of this.

 

I find it irritating to be in ignorance of the location of the places in 'Hrafnkel', especially

those described in the journeys of Samr and Hrafnkell, who go from one end of the country to the other in their  riding to the Thing (þingreiðr).

 

Can anyone help?

 

Cheers

 

Jed

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