冰岛是欧洲最北端一个富有神秘色彩的岛国。虽然这里自然环境恶劣,全岛大部分是荒漠、沼泽、冰川,人口仅二十余万,却有着悠久的文化历史,是片古老的文学沃土。世界文学中的奇葩“埃达”、“萨迦”就产生于这里,因而冰岛又有诗之岛,诗人之岛的美誉。冰岛文学的黄金时代是它的古典时期,相当于西欧的中世纪。所不同的是,冰岛文学一开始就用冰岛文写成,而那时的西欧只是流行于用拉丁文创作,北欧诸国的文学还是一片空白。对整个北 Iceland is a mysterious island nation in the far north of Europe. Although the natural environment here is harsh, most of the island is desert, swamp and glacier with a population of more than 200,000 but a long history of culture. It is an ancient land of literature. The wonderful works of world literature “Ada ” “Sakya ” was born here, so Iceland has the poem of the island, the poet Island reputation. The golden age of Icelandic literature is its classical period, which is equivalent to the Middle Ages in Western Europe. The difference is that Icelandic literature was originally written in Icelandic, while Western Europe was only popular in Latin. The literature of the Nordic countries was still blank. To the whole North