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Download or read book The Saga of Viga Glum written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Viga Glum's saga, tr., with notes, by sir E. Head by : Glúmr
Download or read book Viga Glum's saga, tr., with notes, by sir E. Head written by Glúmr and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 8 VIKING SAGAS + HAVAMAL + free eBook - The Saga of Eirik the Red by : Various
Download or read book 8 VIKING SAGAS + HAVAMAL + free eBook - The Saga of Eirik the Red written by Various and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 2572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Sagas were from a time when men were knighted for achieving great feats, and great their feats were. Often dismissed by the King’s court and shunned by their peers, they went a-viking with a small band of loyal followers, or sometimes alone, to seek their fortune and fame in a way that only a Viking would know how. On their return home they were, more often than not, proclaimed as heroes to be honoured by their kings and given their rightful places in the court and the nation. The sagas in this series are: ISBN TITLE’s 9781907256455 The Saga of Viga Glum 9781907256462 The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw 9781907256486 The Life and death of Cormak the Skald - A Romantic Norse Saga 9781907256516 THE SAGA OF BEOWULF - rewritten for children & young adults 9781907256530 THE SAGA OF BURNT NJAL 9781907256578 THE SAGA of GRETTIR THE STRONG 9781907256646 Fridthjof's Saga or Friedhof's Saga 9781909302631 Havamal 9781909302136 THE SAGA OF GUNNLAUG THE WORM-TONGUE AND RAVEN THE SKALD 9781907256738 The Saga of Eirik the Red - FREE EBOOK
Book Synopsis THE SAGA OF GUNNLAUG THE WORM-TONGUE AND RAVEN THE SKALD - A Norse/Viking Saga by : Anon E. Mouse
Download or read book THE SAGA OF GUNNLAUG THE WORM-TONGUE AND RAVEN THE SKALD - A Norse/Viking Saga written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald, composed in the 13th century, relates the story of two Icelandic poets Gunnlaugr Ormstunga and Hrafn Önundarson, and their competition for the love of Helga the Fair, daughter of Þorsteinn Egilsson and granddaughter of Egill Skallagrímsson. The story opens with a prophetic dream of two eagles fighting over a swan, prefiguring the love triangle in the story. The rivalry is initially fought using verse, but later with weapons, when Gunnlaug challenges Hrafn to a holmgang -- a duel, the recognised Norse way of settling disputes. The narrative follows Gunnlaugr and is sympathetic towards him as it describes his ambitious career as a court poet across Scandinavia and the British Isles. The saga has similarities to earlier sagas of poets, such as Kormáks saga and Bjarnar saga, but it is more refined and elegant with strong characterization and emotional impact. Long considered a masterpiece, the saga is often read by new students of Old Norse literature. William Morris is normally thought of as a fantasy precursor of Tolkien, having written The Wood Beyond the World among other works. But he was also a translator, along with Eiríkr Magnússon, of more than just a few Norse Sagas. Originally written in the old Icelandic language, considered to be the closest tongue to that spoken by the Vikings, Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald is but one of those efforts. ================= TAGS: Viking Saga, Norse, Norway, Gunnlaug, Worm-Tongue, Raven The Skald, Iceland, Greenland, Thorstein Egilson, Kin, Dream, Birth, Fostering, Helga The Fair, Raven, Vow, Faring, Abroad, East, West, Ireland, Quarrel, Swedish King, Wife, Abide Away, Landing, Wedding, Skaney, Kings Cloak, Two Foes, Fight, Dingness, News, Death Of Helga
Book Synopsis Viga-Glums Saga, with the Tales of Ögmund Bash and Thorvald Chatterbox by :
Download or read book Viga-Glums Saga, with the Tales of Ögmund Bash and Thorvald Chatterbox written by and published by Unesco. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis THE SAGA OF OLAF THE GLORIOUS - A Story of the Viking Age by : Robert Leighton
Download or read book THE SAGA OF OLAF THE GLORIOUS - A Story of the Viking Age written by Robert Leighton and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OLAF TRYGGVASON, the hero of this saga is not an imaginary one; he was a real flesh and blood man who eventually reigned as King of Norway just over a thousand years ago. His life reads as only a Viking Saga could and should. Herein you will find the salient facts of his adventurous and outstanding life. They are: his boyhood of slavery in Estonia,his life at the court of King Valdemar,his wanderings as a Viking,the many battles he fought, on land and sea,his conversion to Christianity in England, and;his ultimate return to his native Norway where he reigned as King – are set forth in this volume which, if summarised, would make for a cracking campfire yarn. The events related herein can be found in the various Icelandic sagas dealing with the period in which he lived. In short, Olaf was your archetypal Viking. Very few authors could pen a saga that mirrors the life of Olaf, and many have tried. However in penning this story, Leighton made full and free use of these old time records, and added only such probable incidents as were necessary to give a thread of continuity to the reader. NOTE: For the convenience of readers who may wish for greater exactness; Olaf Triggvison was born A.D. 963 and he started on his wanderings as a Viking in the year A.D. 981. The sea fight between the Vikings of Jomsburg and the Norwegians took place in A.D. 986, and the battle of Maldon in the year A.D. 991. Olaf reigned only five years as King of Norway, being crowned in 995, and ending his reign with his death in the glorious defeat at Svold in the year A.D. 1000. 10% of the publisher’s profit from the sale of this book will be donated to UNICEF. KEYWORDS/TAGS: Viking, Norse, Saga, Story, Olaf Tryggvason, slave, warrior, King, conversion, Christianity, Valdemar, land battles, sea battles, Jomsburg, England, Norway, Norwegian, battle of Maldon, battle of Svold, finding of olaf, sigurd erikson, gerda' s prophecy, slaying of klerkon, norse kings, training, captain of the host, west, over-seas, hermit, scilly Isles, thorir klakka, evil earl, christening, Sigrid, haughty, long serpent, sigvaldi, treachery, snare, svold sound, defence
Book Synopsis The London Quarterly Review by : William Lonsdale Watkinson
Download or read book The London Quarterly Review written by William Lonsdale Watkinson and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea by : Vicki E. Szabo
Download or read book Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea written by Vicki E. Szabo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval people viewed whales in complex and contradictory ways, from marvelous to monstrous to mundane, heaven-sent or hell-bent. Despite this, whales are conspicuous in their absence from most historical and archaeological dialogues on the Middle Ages. Drawing upon a wealth of legal, literary and material evidence, this work details the ways in which whales were sought out and scavenged at sea and shore, fought over in legal and physical battles, and prized for meat, bone and fuel. Using Old Norse sagas, laws and material culture, alongside comparative historical and ethnographic evidence, Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea reexamines the value of whales in the medieval North Atlantic world.
Download or read book ASGARD STORIES written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GREAT READ FOR KIDS! In this volume you will find 14 of the most popular Norse Myths and Tales rewritten especially for children. Tales and stories like Odin’s Reward, Tyr and the Wolf, Freyja’s Necklace, The Hammer of Thor, A Gift from Frigga, The Stealing of Iduna, Skadi, Ægir’s Feast and more. This little volume is the outcome of several years’ experience of the telling of the classic Norse myths to classes of children. There are graphic descriptions in the Norse tales of the hard struggle with rugged nature and the severe climate of the North. The tales and adventures of equally rugged men and women, of bravery and heroes in a time when heroes were needed and men were knighted for achieving great feats - and great hose feats were. Then, too, the moral tone of the Norse myths is higher, purer, and more steadfast than that of the Greek tales, and is more congenial to our Western point of view which has been influenced more by the Teuton than the Greek. But this is simply not a number of made up tales, many works were consulted in the preparation of this volume, and the compilers are especially indebted to the following: Thorpe’s translation of Sæmund’s “Edda”; “The Younger Edda,” in translations; Anderson’s “Norse Mythology”; Guerber’s “Myths of Northern Lands”; William and Mary Howitt’s “Literature and Romance of Northern Europe”; and Mallet’s “Northern Antiquities.”
Book Synopsis The Social Life of Dreams by : Adriënne Heijnen
Download or read book The Social Life of Dreams written by Adriënne Heijnen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how dreams, remembered upon awakening, are turned into social action in a European society. Supported by ethnographic research of modern Iceland and examples from the historical literature, the book argues that the social meaning ascribed to the Icelandic dream has been a continuous part of Icelandic everyday life for a thousand years and is still being adapted today. (Series: European Studies in Culture and Policy - Vol. 12)
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske by : Cornell University Library (Ithaca)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske written by Cornell University Library (Ithaca) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Norse Sagas written by Snorri Sturluson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 3430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sagas are stories mostly about ancient Nordic and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyages and migration to Iceland and of feuds between Icelandic families. They were written in the Old Norse language, mainly in Iceland. Kings' sagas are of the lives of Scandinavian kings. They were composed in the 12th to 14th centuries. The Icelanders' sagas, a.k.a. Family Sagas, are stories of real events, passed in oral form till they eventually were recorded, mostly in the 13th century. These are the highest form of the classical Icelandic saga writing. Legendary Sagas blend remote history with myth or legend. The aim is on a lively narrative and entertainment. Contents: Kings' Sagas Ynglinga Saga Halfdan the Black Saga Harald Harfager's Saga Hakon the Good's Saga Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd King Olaf Trygvason's Saga Saga of Olaf Haraldson (St. Olaf) Saga of Magnus the Good Saga of Harald Hardrade Saga of Olaf Kyrre Magnus Barefoot's Saga Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and His Brothers Eystein and Olaf Saga of Magnus the Blind and of Harald Gille Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald Saga of Hakon Herdebreid Magnus Erlingson's Saga Sagas of Icelanders Egil's Saga (The Story of Egil Skallagrimsson) Laxdæla Saga The Saga of Hrafnkell, Frey's Priest The Story of the Confederates (Bandamanna saga) The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald Saga of the Greenlanders Erik the Red's Saga Grettir's Saga (The Story of Grettir the Strong) Njal's Saga (The story of Burnt Njal) The Saga of Cormac the Skald The Saga of Howard the Halt The Saga of the Ere-Dwellers The Saga of Thrond of Gate The Saga of Viga-Glum The Saga of Viglund the Fair The Saga of Hen-Thorir Legendary Sagas Volsunga Saga Frithiof's Saga
Book Synopsis The Collected Norse Sagas by : Anonymous
Download or read book The Collected Norse Sagas written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 3440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Norse Sagas represents a seminal treasury of ancient lore, encapsulating the profound mythical and historical narratives that define the Viking Age. This collection showcases a vast range of literary styles, from the poetic eddas penned by anonymous skalds to the intricately constructed prose of Snorri Sturluson. It spans the gamut of heroic feats, divine machinations, and the fateful interplay between gods and men, all the while emphasizing the diversity, complexity, and depth of Norse literature. The compilation stands as a monument to the rich literary tradition of the North, immortalizing its characters and tales that have influenced countless generations. The contributing figures to this anthology, though largely anonymous save for Snorri Sturluson, collectively embody the essence of Norse literary and cultural heritage. These sagas are rooted in historical events, cultural beliefs, and the vibrant oral storytelling tradition of the Viking and medieval Scandinavian world. They reflect a mosaic of societal values of the time, offering insights into the mindset, spiritual beliefs, and social dynamics of an era defined by exploration, conquest, and a deep reverence for the natural and supernatural worlds. The Collected Norse Sagas presents readers with a unique gateway into the variegated tapestry of Norse mythology and history. For scholars and enthusiasts alike, this anthology is not merely an academic resource but a portal to the imagination of the Norse world. It invites a comprehensive exploration of its themes, promising an enriching experience to those who seek to understand the profound legacy of the Nordic people. This collection is an essential contribution to the fields of mythology, history, and literature, urging readers to delve into its pages and discover the enduring wisdom contained within.
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: by : Peter France
Download or read book The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: written by Peter France and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the one hundred and ten years covered by volume four of The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, what characterized translation was above all the move to encompass what Goethe called 'world literature'. This occurred, paradoxically, at a time when English literature is often seen as increasingly self-sufficient. In Europe, the culture of Germany was a new source of inspiration, as were the medieval literatures and the popular ballads of many lands, from Spain to Serbia. From the mid-century, the other literatures of the North, both ancient and modern, were extensively translated, and the last third of the century saw the beginning of the Russian vogue. Meanwhile, as the British presence in the East was consolidated, translation helped readers to take possession of 'exotic' non-European cultures, from Persian and Arabic to Sanskrit and Chinese. The thirty-five contributors bring an enormous range of expertise to the exploration of these new developments and of the fascinating debates which reopened old questions about the translator's task, as the new literalism, whether scholarly or experimental, vied with established modes of translation. The complex story unfolds in Britain and its empire, but also in the United States, involving not just translators, publishers, and readers, but also institutions such as the universities and the periodical press. Nineteenth-century English literature emerges as more open to the foreign than has been recognized before, with far-reaching effects on its orientation.
Download or read book Norse Sagas written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 3440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthology 'Norse Sagas' is a riveting collection that embodies the rich tapestry of Norse mythology, hero tales, and historical epics, presenting a broad spectrum of literary styles from the enigmatic to the epic. This compilation, which traverses the stark landscapes of ancient Scandinavia, offers readers an unprecedented exploration of timeless themes such as honor, vengeance, and destiny. Among its pages, standout pieces capture the imagination with tales of gods, giants, and heroes, underscoring the anthologys significance within the broader context of mythological and epic literature. The diversity within this collection not only entertains but enlightens, providing a panoramic view of Norse cultural heritage. The contributing figures to this anthology, notably including the historian and poet Snorri Sturluson, alongside works attributed to Anonymous skalds, bring a depth of scholarly and creative insight to the Norse sagas. Their contributions reflect not only the literary prowess of medieval Scandinavia but also its profound philosophical and existential queries. Embedded within historical, cultural, and literary movements, these texts reveal the syncretic blend of pagan beliefs and societal norms that characterize the Viking Age. This anthology, by weaving together the varied threads of Norse oral and written traditions, offers a unique lens through which to understand these movements. 'Norse Sagas' is recommended for anyone drawn to the exploration of ancient cultures through their myths and stories. This anthology serves as both an educational resource and a portal to the distant past, offering insights into the values, struggles, and beliefs of the Norse people. With its rich array of narratives, it invites readers to engage in a dialogue with the ancients, fostering a deeper appreciation for the complexity and diversity of human thought and storytelling across ages.
Book Synopsis The Collected Works of William Morris: The story of Grettir the Strong. The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs by : William Morris
Download or read book The Collected Works of William Morris: The story of Grettir the Strong. The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs written by William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: