About the Icelandic Saga Database
The Icelandic Saga Database is a non-profit enterprise maintained and administered by volunteers in their spare time. The project was conceived in 2007, with the objective of making the classic Sagas of the Icelanders available in multiple languages in an easily readable format in a single, central repository on the Web. Through countless hours of work, we now host the largest repository of saga translations on the Internet.
Editor Policy
All our best efforts have been made to ensure that the integrity of the texts herein has been preserved. Aside from formatting and the removal of footnotes, the texts are presented as they were found in original printed works. However, this is a volunteer effort with scarce resources, and it is likely that some errors may have slipped in.
To view the origin of a given text, press the "Archival Info" link on the right side, above the navigation panel for the saga.
Copyright Status
All the saga texts contained and provided on this website, unless otherwise specified, are in the public domain. This means that you are free to copy, modify, distribute and use them as you like, for any purposes, free of charge. The hypertext markup of the website itself, however, is subject to copyright.
Help Us
We are always looking for new material. If you know of any online public domain translation of one of the sagas (into any language) which is not already available on this website, then by all means get in touch and let us know.
We also need in help verifying and error-checking the texts. If you find any errors or mistakes in the texts themselves, please let us know. Many of these texts have been processed using Optical Character Recognition software, and the results of such software are often faulty despite our best efforts to correct them.
Hosting
The Icelandic Saga Datbase website is served by the Apache web server on a UNIX host in Reykjavik, Iceland. The website itself is maintained using the Mentat content management system.
Sources
The material contained on this website -- original saga texts and translations -- have either been obtained elsewhere on the web, or processed from original scans using Optical Character Recognition software. We would particularly like to thank the following for providing source material:
This list is not exhaustive, but covers the bulk of the material obtained elsewhere.
Administrators
The Icelandic Saga Database is maintained and edited by Sveinbjörn Þórðarson, historian, and Aðalsteinn Hákonarson, icelandic philologist.