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Author : Rosalind Kerven
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 0785835555
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Viking Myths and Sagas written by Rosalind Kerven and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in consultation with leading academics.
Author : Rosalind Kerven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953745470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Viking Myths & Sagas written by Rosalind Kerven and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive, unique collection of 34 major Viking myths, heroic legends and historical sagas. Features tales of gods, giantesses, dwarfs, valkyries and ghosts; sagas of love and hate, the Viking discovery of America, tales that inspired Tolkien and Shakespeare. Also proverbs, spells, poems, riddles, detailed Notes and a comprehensive Glossary.
Author : Albany Featherstonehaugh Major
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stories from the Northern Sagas written by Albany Featherstonehaugh Major and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albany F. Major
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Stories from the Northern Sagas written by Albany F. Major and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albany F. Major
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Stories from the Northern Sagas written by Albany F. Major and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191004480
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Northlands written by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled new lands, encountered unfamiliar races, and embarked on pilgrimages and crusades. The Norsemen travelled to all corners of the medieval world and beyond; north to the wastelands of arctic Scandinavia, south to the politically turbulent heartlands of medieval Christendom, west across the wild seas to Greenland and the fringes of the North American continent, and east down the Russian waterways trading silver, skins, and slaves. Beyond the Northlands explores this world through the stories that the Vikings told about themselves in their sagas. But the depiction of the Viking world in the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas goes far beyond historical facts. What emerges from these tales is a mixture of realism and fantasy, quasi-historical adventures, and exotic wonder-tales that rocket far beyond the horizon of reality. On the crackling brown pages of saga manuscripts, trolls, dragons, and outlandish tribes jostle for position with explorers, traders, and kings. To explore the sagas and the world that produced them, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough now takes her own trip through the dramatic landscapes that they describe. Along the way, she illuminates the rich but often confusing saga accounts with a range of other evidence: archaeological finds, rune-stones, medieval world maps, encyclopaedic manuscripts, and texts from as far away as Byzantium and Baghdad. As her journey across the Old Norse world shows, by situating the sagas against the revealing background of this other evidence, we can begin at least to understand just how the world was experienced, remembered, and imagined by this unique culture from the outermost edge of Europe so many centuries ago.
Author : Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Tales from Northern Sagas written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rasmus Bjørn Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Viking Tales of the North written by Rasmus Bjørn Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Litchfield
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788883535
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Norse Mythology written by Mary Litchfield and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myths and legends of the Norsemen have entertained both old and young alike for hundreds of years. This fascinating collection contains stories retold from the Icelandic Eddas, the principal sources of knowledge of Norse mythology, and the Sagas of the ancient world of the Vikings. Following the deeds of the powerful Norse gods, such as Odin, Thor and Loki, and filled with a host of fantastic creatures and objects containing magical properties, the tales in Norse Mythology will conjure up a world of heroism and romance that will enthrall readers.
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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141975520
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic Sagas and Tales brings together the very finest Icelandic stories from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, a time of civil unrest and social upheaval. With feuding families and moments of grotesque violence, the sagas see such classic mythological figures as murdered fathers, disguised beggars, corrupt chieftains and avenging sons do battle with axes, words and cunning. The tales, meanwhile, follow heroes and comical fools through dreams, voyages and religious conversions in medieval Iceland and beyond. Shaped by Iceland's oral culture and their conversion to Christianity, these stories are works of ironic humour and stylistic innovation.
Author : William R. Short
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786447273
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Icelanders in the Viking Age written by William R. Short and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.
Author : Jane Smilely
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141933267
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Sagas of the Icelanders written by Jane Smilely and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. Sailing as far from the archetypal heroic adventure as the long ships did from home, the Sagas are written with psychological intensity, peopled by characters with depth, and explore perennial human issues like love, hate, fate and freedom.
Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : Hawthorn Press
ISBN 13 : 1912480824
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Sea Sagas of the North written by Jules Pretty and published by Hawthorn Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book’s stories and sagas cover three central themes : living with environmental change around the North Sea and the Atlantic; story-telling through history in these lands; reconnecting with nature and our ancient heritages so as to live well and responsibly.
Author : Magnus Magnusson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140442182
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Laxdaela Saga written by Magnus Magnusson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1969 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written around 1245 by an unknown author, the Laxdaela Saga is an extraordinary tale of conflicting kinships and passionate love, and one of the most compelling works of Icelandic literature. Covering 150 years in the lives of the inhabitants of the community of Laxriverdale, the saga focuses primarily upon the story of Gudrun Osvif's-daughter: a proud, beautiful, vain and desirable figure, who is forced into an unhappy marriage and destroys the only man she has truly loved – her husband's best friend. A moving tale of murder and sacrifice, romance and regret, the Laxdaela Saga is also a fascinating insight into an era of radical change – a time when the Age of Chivalry was at its fullest flower in continental Europe, and the Christian faith was making its impact felt upon the Viking world.
Author : Alan Langford
Publisher : Puffin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780241735411
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Myths of the Norsemen written by Alan Langford and published by Puffin Classics. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this epic edition of Myths of the Norsemen. The great Norse sagas are full of magic and heroic deeds. Odin's wanderings, Thor's hammer, the death of Bakkur, the vision of Ragnarok - tales which have been told since time immemorial - are given a fresh life in this version, written as one continuous exciting adventure story.
Author : Anders Winroth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400851904
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Age of the Vikings written by Anders Winroth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacy The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.
Author : Tamara Goranson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008455708
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 1) written by Tamara Goranson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1 History set her fate in stone...
