Gerpla is a 1952 Icelandic novel by Halldór Laxness based on the Old Icelandic Fóstbræðra saga.Ástráður Eysteinsson, 'Is Halldór Laxness the Author of Fóstbræðra saga? On the Author Function, Intertextuality, Translation, and a Modern Writer’s Relationship with the Icelandic Sagas ', trans. by Julian Mendoza Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études Scandinaves au Canada, 26 (2019), 132-55.
Translations 1954. Gerpla. Translated by Ingegerd Nyberg Fries. Stockholm: Litteraturfrämjandet. 1958. Kjempeliv i nord. Translated by Ivar Eskeland. Oslo: Tiden norsk forlag 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 Philip 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', 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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