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| List of tables | |
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| A Preface on Practical issues | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Medieval Iceland | |
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| Setting the scene | |
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| Why Iceland? | |
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| Where Did the settlers come from? | |
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| Medieval Iceland society | |
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| Religion | |
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| Why did medieval Icelanders write so much and so well? | |
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| What is an Old Norse-Icelandic saga? | |
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| The term Old Norse | |
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| What is an Old Norse-Icelandic saga? | |
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| Saga in the medieval lexicon | |
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| How are sagas different from non-sagas? | |
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| The view from inside the text | |
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| Kinds of sagas | |
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| The genesis of the Icelandic saga | |
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| Theories of saga Origins | |
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| A major controversy in studies of saga origins: bookprose versus freeprose | |
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| Studies of Oral cultures and their impact on saga studies | |
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| Vernacular literacy in medieval Iceland | |
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| The growth of saga conventions | |
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| Concepts of authorship | |
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| Saga chronology | |
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| The Politics of saga chronology | |
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| The evidence of the manuscripts | |
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| Dating criteria | |
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| Some tentative conclusions | |
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| Saga subjects and settings | |
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| Time and place in the saga world | |
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| The world of the fornaldars�gur | |
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| Riddaras�gur and their world | |
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| Kings' sagas | |
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| Sagas of Icelanders and their world | |
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| Contemporary sagas | |
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| Saga mode, style and point of view | |
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| An example of prosimetrum: Korm�ks saga, Chapter 6 | |
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| Literary and cultural background | |
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| The analysis | |
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| Valla-Lj�ts saga, Chapter 4 | |
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| Literary and cultural background | |
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| The analysis | |
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| Brennu-Nj� saga, Chapter 157 | |
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| Literary and cultural background | |
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| The analysis | |
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| Qrvar-Odds saga, Chapter 42 | |
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| Literary and cultural background | |
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| The analysis | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Saga structures | |
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| Structure and meaning | |
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| Structures of conflict and resolution | |
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| Life-histories: Structures of biography and genealogy | |
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| Structures of travel and the acquisition of Knowledge | |
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| Structural complexity in the Icelandic sagas | |
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| The material record: how we know the sagas | |
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| Medieval Icelandic manuscripts and manuscript copying | |
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| The Copying and collecting of Icelandic manuscripts after the Middle Ages | |
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| Saga editions: Principles and Practice | |
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| Changing understandings of the sagas | |
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| The reception of sagas in post-Medieval Iceland | |
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| The reception of the Icelandic sagas outside Iceland | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary of technical terms | |
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| Guide to further reading | |
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| References of volumes in the �slenzk fornrit editions of Icelandic sagas | |
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| Index | |