---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 632809
    num_examples: 7348
  download_size: 363589
  dataset_size: 632809
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- is
pretty_name: Brennu-Njála Saga
---

# Njala datast

Njala is a thirtheen-century Icelandic saga that describes events in the years between 960 and 1020

This is intended to be the Icelandic "tiny Shakespeare" corpus, for testing purposes.

The raw text can be found here [njala.txt](./njala.txt). The text was gathered from [snerpa.is](https://www.snerpa.is/net/isl/njala.htm)