Dove Bay ( Danish : Dove Bugt ) is a bay in King Frederick VIII Land , northeastern Greenland . It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area.
7-604: Dove bay is said to have been the legendary Breidifjòrdr of the Sagas of Icelanders . It was named Dove Bai by the Second German North Polar Expedition led by Carl Koldewey after German physicist and meteorologist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–79). Dove Bay is a large bay located between Cape Bismarck in Germania Land to the north, a complex cluster of coastal islands to the west, Store Koldewey to
14-556: A subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas . They are prose narratives primarily based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries, during the so-called Saga Age . They were written in Old Icelandic , a western dialect of Old Norse . They are the best-known specimens of Icelandic literature . They are focused on history, especially genealogical and family history. They reflect
21-462: Is believed by some scholars to have been written by Snorri Sturluson , a descendant of the saga's hero, but this remains uncertain. The standard modern edition of Icelandic sagas is produced by Hið íslenzka fornritafélag ('The Old Icelandic Text Society'), or Íslenzk fornrit for short. Among the several literary reviews of the sagas is the Sagalitteraturen by Sigurður Nordal , which divides
28-689: The Greenland Sea through the Storebaelt (Store Bælt) strait. The bay is usually free from ice in August and September. Its waters are deep. The Danmarkshavn weather station is located north of the bay on the southern shore of the Germania Land Peninsula. Sagas of Icelanders The sagas of Icelanders ( Icelandic : Íslendingasögur , modern Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈislɛndiŋkaˌsœːɣʏr̥] ), also known as family sagas , are
35-463: The east and Adolf S. Jensen Land to the southwest. Besides Store Koldewey, there are numerous islands in the periphery of the bay such as Edward Island , Godfred Hansen Island , Lindhard Island , Nanok Island , Tvillingerne and Djævleøen —with its conspicuous Teufelkap . There are also fjords, such as the Mørkefjord and Hellefjord , having their mouth in the bay. To the south, the bay opens to
42-472: The sagas into five chronological groups (depending on when they were written not their subject matters) distinguished by the state of literary development: This framework has been severely criticised as based on a presupposed attitude to the fantastic and an over-estimation on the precedence of Landnámabók . It is thought that a number of sagas are now lost, including the supposed Gauks saga Trandilssonar – The saga of Gaukur á Stöng. In addition to these,
49-498: The struggle and conflict that arose within the societies of the early generations of Icelandic settlers. The Icelandic sagas are valuable and unique historical sources about medieval Scandinavian societies and kingdoms, in particular regarding pre-Christian religion and culture and the heroic age. Eventually, many of these Icelandic sagas were recorded, mostly in the 13th and 14th centuries. The 'authors', or rather recorders, of these sagas are largely unknown. One saga, Egil's Saga ,
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