# Influence of the Sagas on Modern Nordic Literature

The Library of Congress and the Cornell University Library sponsored a scholarly symposium on Old Norse sagas. The symposium, "Saga Literature and the Shaping of Icelandic Culture," featured five sessions presented by distinguished scholars in the field of Old Icelandic studies. Today's session, "Influence of the Sagas on Modern Nordic Literature," featured Jon Karl Helgason, Iceland: "A Modern Biography of Hallgerdur: Icelandic Sagas, Henry James and Dorothy James Roberts"; Regis Boyer, France: "The Narrative Genius of the North"; and Torfi H. Tulinius, Iceland: "Grettir and Bjartur: Realism and the Supernatural in Medieval and Modern Icelandic Literature."

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2000
- By: Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division
- Genres: Education, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688070/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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