Gerpla

Gerpla is a 1952 Icelandic novel by Halldór Laxness based on the Old Icelandic Fóstbræðra saga.

Translations

• 1954. Gerpla. Translated by Ingegerd Nyberg Fries. Stockholm: Litteraturfrämjandet.
• 1958. The Happy Warriors. Translated by Katherine John. London: Methuen.
• 1962. Gerpla: Hrdinská sága. Translated by Nina Neklanová. Jiskry: Nová beletristická knihovna 37. Prague: Nakladatelství politické literatury.
• 1977. Gerpla: Eine Heldensage. Translated by Bruno Kress. Berlin: Aufbau.
• 1988. Gerpla: Sága o hrdinoch. Translated by Jaroslav Kaňa. Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ.
• 2016. Wayward Heroes. Translated by Phillip Roughton. New York: Archipelago Books.

Further reading

See Alec Shaw, '"The Lore of Skalds, Warrior Ideals, and Tales of Ancient Kings": A Bibliography on Gerpla<nowiki>'</nowiki>, Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada, 26 (2019), 320–25, and other articles in the same issue of the journal.

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