This issue of Mosaic takes a broad and diverse approach to Scandinavian literature, touching on the Icelandic Book of Settlements; the Icelandic family sagas; the interpretation of the relationship between the Valdemars and Tove or Tovelil; the influence of European Literature on Icelandic sagas of the late Middle Ages; the modern Icelandic novel; the plays of Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Knut Hamsun; and the work of Herman Bang, Johan Borgen, Gunner Ekelöf, and Östen Sjöstrand.