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Icelandic Histories and Romances

Icelandic Histories and Romances

Anne O'Connor
Barcode 9780752428949
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Release Date: 01/07/2004

Genre: Non-Fiction
Sub-Genre: History
Illustrator: Anne O'Connor
Label: The History Press Ltd
Contributors: Anne O'Connor (Illustrated by), Ralph O'Connor (Translated with commentary by)
Language: English
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Pages: 192

The Icelandic sagas, composed between the twelfth and the nineteenth centuries, are one of the world's great literary treasures.

The Icelandic sagas, composed between the twelfth and the nineteenth centuries, are one of the world's great literary treasures. After an extended and lively introduction to the genre, Ralph O'Connor provides new translations for five of the greatest of these sagas. We encounter a humble Icelandic scholar dreaming of a Viking past, a royal adventurer evading the horrible lusts of troll-women, a demon popping out of a lavatory, the death spasms of the old Northern gods and unnatural acts in Muslim Germany. The sagas are evocatively illustrated by Anne O'Connor.



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