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  1. Viking Age Iceland (Storpocket)

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    Jesse L. Byock

    ISBN: 9780140291155 - UTGIVEN: 200102

    Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defense forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying struct[...]

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    från 125.00 kr
  2. The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (Storpocket)

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    Jesse L. Byock

    ISBN: 9780140435931 - UTGIVEN: 199807

    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':[...]

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    från 115.00 kr
  3. The Saga of the Volsungs (Storpocket)

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    Jesse L. Byock

    ISBN: 9780140447385 - UTGIVEN: 199905

    Based on Viking Age poems, "The Saga of the Volsungs" combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its heart are the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires magical knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. Yet it is also set in a very human world, incorporating strands from the [...]

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    från 89.00 kr
  4. The Prose Edda (Storpocket)

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    Snorri Sturluson, Jesse L. Byock

    ISBN: 9780140447552 - UTGIVEN: 200507

    The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwa[...]

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    från 100.00 kr
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    från 258.00 kr
  6. Feud in the Icelandic Saga (Övrig)

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    Jesse L. Byock

    ISBN: 9780520082595 - UTGIVEN: 1993-03-09

    Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society--the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict--is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation[...]

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    från 249.00 kr
  7. The Saga of the Volsungs (Pocket)

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    Jesse L. (TRN) Byock

    ISBN: 9780520272996 - UTGIVEN: 2012-06

    "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,[...]

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    från 230.00 kr