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Product: Tales from the Viking Age: Captivating Legendary and Historical Sagas
Description: Explore Captivating Tales from the Viking Age

As the name suggests, the legendary sagas are works of fiction. It is in these sagas that we meet all manner of fantastic creatures, read of the exploits of heroes and villains, and occasionally see the gods peek in to steer events or punish evildoers.

The sagas of Icelanders, by contrast, are largely historical works that tell the stories of the families who left continental Scandinavian lands to settle Iceland beginning in the late ninth century. However, these historical sagas are not entirely untouched by the fantastic, since they also occasionally contain episodes that involve magic or the supernatural.

This current volume presents three Viking sagas. Two are legendary sagas, while the third is historical.

Within this book, you'll find the following Viking Sagas covered:

The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise
Selections from The Saga of Örvar-Oddr
The Voyages to Vinland

Get the book now and discover captivating tales from the Viking Age!
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Product: Icelandic Folk Legends: Tales of Apparitions, Outlaws, and Things Unseen
Description: The Icelandic nation has a long and rich history of storytelling. Throughout centuries characterized by hardship, poverty, and dark winters, the Icelanders kept their spirits high and moral values intact by telling each other stories. In this collection of 15 Icelandic folk legends, we get a glimpse of the world view of the Icelanders in centuries past as they endeavored to understand and cope with the natural phenomena around them. There are stories of malicious ghosts, outlaws living in carved-out boulders, hidden people residing in grassy knolls, trolls that are tripped up by their own stupidity, and much more. In addition, there is one story exemplifying a fairy tale motif that scholars have discovered to be unique to Iceland: that of the good stepmother, "The Story of Himinbjörg". Throughout the book we get a powerful sense of the Icelanders’ beliefs, values, and fears, as well as their strong need to cling to all that was pure and good.
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Product: Jane Smiley: The Sagas of Icelanders : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback); 2001 Edition
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Product: Saga: A Novel of Medieval Iceland
Description: This retelling of the ancient Saga of the People of Eyri is a modern classic. Absolutely gripping and compulsively readable, Booklist said this book, "does what good historical fiction is supposed to do: put a face on history that is recognizable to all." And medieval expert Tom Shippey, writing for the Times Literary Supplement said, "Sagas look like novels superficially, in their size and layout and plain language, but making their narratives into novels is a trick which has proved beyond most who have tried it. Janoda's Saga provides a model of how to do it: pick out the hidden currents, imagine how they would seem to peripheral characters, and as with all historical novels, load the narrative with period detail drawn from the scholars. No better saga adaptation has been yet written."
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Product: Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland (Penguin Classics)
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.
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Product: The complete sagas of Icelanders, including 49 tales
Description: The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, from Leifur Eiriksson Publishing, is the first English translation of the entire corpus of the Sagas of Icelanders together with the forty-nine tales connected with them.
Thirty translators were carefully selected for the project, including leading international scholars and university teachers from seven countries who have studied and written on Nordic medieval literature and culture. All the translators are native English speakers and writers.
Careful editorial planning and coordination ensured that translators followed the same translation policy and produced the same high level of accuracy and readability. Coordination work included use of consistent English terms for key words and concepts, recurrent proverbs and phrases, and other cultural realia. Spelling conventions for personal and place names were normalised, as were translations of nicknames occurring in more than one Saga. Eleven Icelandic medieval specialists then carefully checked the translations against the original Icelandic texts to ensure accurate renderings and returned them to the translators for revision. A further revision stage concentrated on the English style, when fourteen native English-speaking scholars read through the translations before the translators gave them a final polish.
The publishers are confident that these extensive editorial efforts have produced sound, quality translations. While they reflect the expertise of scholars in this specialist field, a prime concern was to produce a text in smooth and readable modern English. There are probably few examples of comparable coordinated translations of an entire literary corpus into another language.
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Product: Bobby Fischer Comes Home: The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions
Brand: New in Chess
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Product: Iceland Saga
Brand: Tempus
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Product: The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Used Book in Good Condition
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Product: Island Zombie: Iceland Writings
Brand: Princeton University Press
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Product: Iceland: Land of the Sagas
Brand: Villard
Color: Black
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Product: Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland
Brand: University of Chicago Press
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Product: Eirik The Red and Other Icelandic Sagas (Oxford World's Classics)
Brand: Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press USA
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Product: The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Brand: Penguin Classics
Color: Black
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Product: Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
Brand: Penguin Classics
Color: Multicolor
Penguin Classics
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Product: Icelandic Folktales & Legends (Revealing History (Paperback))
Brand: History Press
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