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The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún

Author : J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547504713
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. In the Lay of the Völsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún. The Lay of Gudrún recounts her fate after the death of Sigurd, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers, and her hideous revenge.

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

Author : J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007323077
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrún, and the Fall of the Nibelungs.

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung

Author : William Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Sigurd the Volsung written by William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Elder Edda

Author : Andy Orchard
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141943475
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Elder Edda written by Andy Orchard and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Völsung family, the Hel-ride of Brynhild and the cruelty of Atli the Hun. Eclectic, incomplete and fragmented, these verses nevertheless retain their stark beauty and their power to enthrall, opening a window on to the thoughts, beliefs and hopes of the Vikings and their world.

Völsunga Saga

Author : Henry Halliday Sparling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Völsunga Saga written by Henry Halliday Sparling and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

Author : Christopher Tolkien
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0358652979
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo written by Christopher Tolkien and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd 1975"--Title page verso.

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

Author : J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780007319725
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deluxe edition limited to 500 copies worldwide, signed by Christopher Tolkien. Containing a facsimile page of original manuscript, it is hand-bound in goat-skin and features raised spine ribs; the pages are edged in gold. The book is housed in a matching leather traycase lined in real suede and protected in its own shipping carton. In the Lay of the V�lsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of F�fnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In that court there sprang great love but also great hate, brought about by the power of the enchantress, mother of the Niflungs, skilled in the arts of magic, of shape-changing and potions of forgetfulness. In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudr�n his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudr�n. In the Lay of Gudr�n her fate after the death of Sigurd is told, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers the Niflung lords, and her hideous revenge. Deluxe edition limited to 500 copies worldwide, signed by Christopher Tolkien. Containing a facsimile page of original manuscript, it is hand-bound in goat-skin and features raised spine ribs; the pages are edged in gold. The book is housed in a matching leather traycase lined in real suede and protected in its own shipping carton.

Tales from the Perilous Realm

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547154114
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Perilous Realm written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas ("Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major," and "Roverandom") and one book of poems ("The Adventures of Tom Bombadil") are gathered together in a fully illustrated set.

The Saga of the Volsungs

Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520951514
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Saga of the Volsungs written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic epic of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his Ring Cycle and a primary source for writers of fantasy such as J. R. R. Tolkien and romantics such as William Morris. A trove of traditional lore, it tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung. Byock's comprehensive introduction explores the history, legends, and myths contained in the saga and traces the development of a narrative that reaches back to the period of the great folk migrations in Europe when the Roman Empire collapsed.

Beowulf

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544442784
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.

The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 1328834549
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming from the darker side of J.R.R. Tolkien's imagination, this is an important non Middle-earth work to set alongside his other retellings of existing myth and legend, "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún," "The Fall of Arthur," and "The Story of Kullervo."

The Fall of Arthur

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544115899
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Arthur written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the legend of King Arthur in an epic, but unfinished, poem written in Old English alliterative meter.

Revisiting the Poetic Edda

Author : Paul Acker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136227865
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting the Poetic Edda written by Paul Acker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Guðrún and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King Fróði, whose name lives on in Tolkien’s Frodo. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the poems for students, taking a number of fresh, theoretically-sophisticated and productive approaches to the poetry and its characters. Contributors bring to bear insights generated by comparative study, speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new, probing questions about the heroic poetry and its reception. Each essay is accompanied by up-to-date lists of further reading and a contextualisation of the poems or texts discussed in critical history. Drawing on the latest international studies of the poems in their manuscript context, and written by experts in their individual fields, engaging with the texts in their original language and context, but presented with full translations, this companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002) is accessible to students and illuminating for experts. Essays also examine the afterlife of the heroic poems in Norse legendary saga, late medieval Icelandic poetry, the nineteenth-century operas of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the recently published (posthumous) poem by Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy

Author : Dimitra Fimi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137552824
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy written by Dimitra Fimi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children’s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of “Celticity.” The term “Celtic” itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.

A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages

Author : J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0008131406
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

Author : Christopher Tolkien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781615237616
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún written by Christopher Tolkien and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tolkien and the Great War

Author : John Garth
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544263723
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Tolkien and the Great War written by John Garth and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: “Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written.” —A. N. Wilson As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, Tolkien experienced the horrors of the Great War as a signal officer in the Battle of the Somme, where two of those school friends died. All the while, he was hard at work on an original mythology that would become the basis of his literary masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In this biographical study, drawn in part from Tolkien’s personal wartime papers, John Garth traces the development of the author’s work during this critical period. He shows how the deaths of two comrades compelled Tolkien to pursue the dream they had shared, and argues that the young man used his imagination not to escape from reality—but to transform the cataclysm of his generation. While Tolkien’s contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. “Garth’s fine study should have a major audience among serious students of Tolkien.” —Publishers Weekly “A highly intelligent book . . . Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer.” —Max Hastings, author of The Secret War “Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation.” —San Jose Mercury News “A labour of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman’s nose for a good story with a scholar’s scrupulous attention to detail . . . Brilliantly argued.” —Daily Mail (UK) “Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights.” —Library Journal “Insight into how a writer turned academia into art, how deeply friendship supports and wounds us, and how the death and disillusionment that characterized World War I inspired Tolkien’s lush saga.” —Detroit Free Press