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Author : Desmond Slay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Manuscripts of Hrólfs Saga Kraka written by Desmond Slay and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504024397
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Hrolf Kraki's Saga written by Poul Anderson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the British Fantasy Award: The ancient legend of the Danish Viking king is retold in a tale of vengeance, battles, magic, and monsters. In the court of the Anglo-Saxon king, a visiting storyteller regales the assembled nobles with the enthralling tale of her faraway land’s most revered hero: the Viking Hrolf Kraki. Born of an incestuous union into a royal family with a history of violence, jealousy, usurpation, and murder, Hrolf assembled a loyal band of the mightiest champions in the realm and expanded his small kingdom through wisdom, courage, and conquest. Unbeaten on the battlefield, his great deeds and victories became legends throughout the North as he ushered in an era of peace and prosperity. But Hrolf’s desire for vengeance was ever the warrior-king’s driving force, as he sought the truth about his father’s murder. This obsession would threaten Hrolf’s life and his rule—and ultimately bring his great kingdom to ruin. Poul Anderson, one of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century fantasy, employs his unparalleled storytelling talents to bring Denmark’s great Viking king to life. A saga that predates the stories of King Arthur and his knights and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, while echoing the Oedipus and Beowulf myths, the Norse legend of Hrolf Kraki takes on a new and breathtaking richness in this classic novel the Guardian described as “full of thrills.”
Author : Oscar Ludvig Olson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf written by Oscar Ludvig Olson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf" (A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The / Scandinavian Countries) by Oscar Ludvig Olson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Jesse Byock
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141914092
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki written by Jesse Byock and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf's Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to have occurred in fifth-century Denmark. It tells of the exploits of King Hrolf and of his famous champions, including Bodvar Bjarki, the 'bear-warrior': a powerful figure whose might and bear-like nature are inspired by the same legendary heritage as Beowulf. Depicting a world of wizards, sorceresses and 'berserker' fighters - originally members of a cult of Odin - this is a compelling tale of ancient magic. A work of timeless power and beauty, it offers both a treasury of Icelandic prose and a masterful gathering of epic, cultic memory, traditional folk tale and myths from the Viking age and far earlier.
Author : Oscar Ludvig Olson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf written by Oscar Ludvig Olson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1580443060
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njáls saga written by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Njáls saga is the best known and most highly regarded of all medieval Icelandic sagas and it occupies a special place in Icelandic cultural history. The manuscript tradition is exceptionally rich and extensive. The oldest extant manuscripts date to only a couple of decades after the saga’s composition in the late 13th century and the saga was subsequently copied by hand continuously up until the 20th century, even alongside the circulation of printed text editions in latter centuries. The manuscript corpus as a whole has great socio-historical value, showcasing the myriad ways in which generations of Icelanders interpreted the saga and took an active part in its transmission; the manuscripts are also valuable sources for evidence of linguistic change and other phenomena. The essays in this volume present new research and a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the Njáls saga manuscripts. Many of the authors took part in the international research project "The Variance of Njáls saga" which was funded by the Icelandic Research Council from 2011-2013.
Author : National Library of Scotland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Summary Catalogue of the Advocates' Manuscripts written by National Library of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agneta Ney
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 8763525798
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Fornaldarsagaerne written by Agneta Ney and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Icelandic Manuscripts written by Halldór Hermannsson and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1929 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jackson Crawford
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1647920094
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (479 download)
Download or read book Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes written by Jackson Crawford and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inherited through the line of the berserker Angantýr and his war-loving daughter Hervor, the ever-lethal, shining sword Tyrfing and its changes of hands frame the uncanny story of The Saga of Hervor and Heiđrek. A second heroic saga, Hrólf Kraki and His Champions, recounts the daring deeds of the members and entourage of the ancient Danish house of Skjoldung. Passed down orally in pre-Christian Norse times, transmitted in writing in medieval Iceland, and here wielded by the hand of Jackson Crawford, the tales told in this volume retain their sharp edges and flashes of glory that never fail to slay.
Author : Harry Leigh Douglas Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum written by Harry Leigh Douglas Ward and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ármann Jakobsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513869
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400 written by Ármann Jakobsson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources, including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North. This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.
Author : Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501735977
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Heroic Sagas and Ballads written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia. Central to his argument is the view that these heroic texts should be studied in the light of the later Icelandic Middle Ages rather than that of the Viking age, although the stories, the tellers, and the audiences are clearly concerned with exactly this period of Scandinavian history. Viewing these sagas as the products of highly diverse forms of inspiration and creation—some oral, some written—Mitchell explores their aesthetic and social dimensions, demonstrating their function both as entertainment and as a literature with a more serious purpose, one with deep roots in Nordic literary consciousness. The traditions that these sagas relate possessed an importance beyond the temporal and geographical confines of medieval Iceland, and Heroic Sagas and Ballads considers the process by which these heroic materials were subsequently recast as metrical romances in Iceland and as ballads throughout the rest of Scandinavia. It is ultimately concerned with much more than just those stories that inspired such modern writers as Richard Wagner and H. Rider Haggard; its anthropological and folkloric approach to the legendary sagas shows how the extraliterary dimensions of medieval texts can be explored. Heroic Sagas and Ballads addresses issues of central importance to medievalists, folklorists, comparatists, Scandinavianists, and students of the ballad.
Author : Kaarina Koski
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
ISBN 13 : 9522228443
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Genre - text - interpretation written by Kaarina Koski and published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents current discussions on the concept of genre. It introduces innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary and historical genres, their roles in cultural discourse, how they change, and their relations to each other. The reader is guided into the discussion surrounding this key concept and its history through a general introduction, followed by eighteen chapters that represent a variety of discursive practices as well as analytic methods from several scholarly traditions. This volume will have wide appeal to several academic audiences within the humanities, both in Finland and abroad, and will especially be of interest to scholars of folklore, language and cultural expression.
Author : Lars Lönnroth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520027084
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Njáls Saga written by Lars Lönnroth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John McKinnell
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840428
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend written by John McKinnell and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close examination of the significant theme of other-worldly encounters in Norse myth and legend, including giantesses, monsters and the Dead. A particular, recurring feature of Old Norse myths and legends is an encounter between creatures of This World [gods and human beings] and those of the Other [giants, giantesses, dwarves, prophetesses, monsters and the dead]. Concentrating on cross-gendered encounters, this book analyses these meetings, and the different motifs and situations they encompass, from the consultation of a prophetess by a king or god, to sexual liaisons and return from the dead. It considers the evidence for their pre-Christian origins, discusses how far individual poets and prose writers were free to modify them, and suggests that they survived in medieval Christian society because [like folk-tale] they provide a non-dogmatic way of resolving social and psychological problems connected with growing up, succession from one generation to the next, sexual relationships and bereavement.
Author : Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317607821
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Minor Knowledge and Microhistory written by Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in the everyday life of the peasantry. The focus is on the history of education and communication in a global perspective. Rather than engaging in comparing different countries or regions, the authors seek to view and study early modern and modern manuscript culture as a transnational (or transregional) practice, giving agency to its ordinary participants and attention to hitherto overlooked source material. Through a microhistorical lens, the authors examine the strength of this aspect of popular culture and try to show it in a wider perspective, as well as asking questions about the importance of this development for the continuity of the literary tradition. The book is an attempt to explain “the nature of the literary culture” in general – how new ideas were transported from one person to another, from community to community, and between regions; essentially, the role of minor knowledge in the development of modern men.
