Sagas of Warrior-Poets
Lovers, poets, and dragon-slaying heroes populate the gripping Icelandic sagas included in this collection. Part of Penguin Classics' eight-volume Icelandic Saga collection, this volume includes stories that were composed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and are set more than two hundred years earlier-a time when the old Viking ethos of honor and heroic adventure merged with new ideas of romantic infatuation. Set in the farmsteads of Viking-age Iceland, each of these sagas features poet heroes, complex love triangles, and travels to foreign lands. In her informative introduction, Diana Whaley highlights these important themes and re…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-044771-2
- EAN: 9780140447712
- Produktnummer: 9875360
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.9 cm 284 g
- Abbildungen: maps, chronology, glossary, index, notes
- Gewicht: 284
Über den Autor
Diana Whaley is a Reader in Medieval Studies at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.Translators: Diana Whaley, Rory McTurk, Katrina Attwood, Alison Finlay, Marianne Kalinke
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