Sagas of the Icelandersl horse theme Gáttaþefur or Doorway Sniffer

Gáttaþefur or Doorway Sniffer

The merging of the gift-giving custom with the Icelandic Yule Lads has in about the last half century resulted in the tradition of children placing a shoe in their windowsill

A sleepy sheepy from Iceland

Size: 307 mm /12

Being partial to protein and fleet-footed too

Sagas of the Icelandersl horse theme Gáttaþefur or Doorway SnifferIn Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's great 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 and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who