Richard F. Allen

Richard F. Allen

Richard F. Allen taught at the University of Oregon and the University of California and lives in Berkeley, California.

Fire and Iron

Critical Approaches to Njáls saga

Written in Iceland by an unknown author about 1280, Njáls saga has been called the greatest work of vernacular prose fiction from the European Middle Ages. Allen's finely written and perceptive study is one of the first in English to offer a critical examination of the text.