Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas

Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas PDF Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192835307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "Gunnlaug Wormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.

Eirik the Red

Eirik the Red PDF Author: Gwyn Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The Vinland Sagas

The Vinland Sagas PDF Author: Leifur Eiricksson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141991550
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik’s son Leif the Lucky’s perilous voyages to explore it. Wrecked by storms, stricken by disease and plagued by navigational mishaps, some survived the North Atlantic to pass down this compelling tale of the first Europeans to talk with, trade with, and war with the Native Americans.

Eirik the Red

Eirik the Red PDF Author: Gwyn Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland

Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland PDF Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141975520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
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.

The Sagas of the Icelanders

The Sagas of the Icelanders PDF Author: Jane Smilely
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141933267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
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.
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