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Ralph O'Connor
ISBN: 9780752419527
Format: Paperback
Publisher:The History Press Ltd
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The Icelandic sagas are one of the world's great literary treasures. Between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, countless heroes and heroines were commemorated, celebrated in hundreds of vivid, engaging prose narratives. These were copied and retold in many thousands of manuscripts, bringing the past to life for generations of Icelanders and helping them to while away the winter evenings …
The Icelandic sagas, composed between the twelfth and the nineteenth centuries, are one of the world's great literary treasures. After an extended and lively introduction to the genre, Ralph O'Connor provides new translations for five of the greatest of these sagas. We encounter a humble Icelandic scholar dreaming of a Viking past, a royal adventurer evading the horrible lusts of troll-women, a demon popping out of a lavatory, the death spasms of the old Northern gods and unnatural acts in Muslim Germany. The sagas are evocatively illustrated by Anne O'Connor.
| ISBN | 0752419528 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780752419527
(What's this?) | | Pages | 160 | | Publisher | The History Press Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 476 | | Imprint | NPI Media Group | | Published in | Stroud | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 241 | | Publication date | 01 Mar 2002 | | Width (mm) | 171 | | Illustrator | Anne O’Connor | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY | 839.68009 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Preface | | 6 | | | | Introduction | | 7 | | | | Note on the Translations | | 47 | | 1 | | Star-Oddi's Dream | | 51 | | 2 | | The Saga of Hjalmther and Olvir | | 65 | | 3 | | Extract from the Book of Flatey | | 103 | | 4 | | The Saga of Bard the Snowfell God | | 109 | | 5 | | Mirmann's Saga | | 139 | | | | Glossary of Characters and Terms | | 175 | | | | Icelandic Place-Names | | 189 | | | | Further Reading | | 190 |
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