Seven Viking Romances
by Hermann Palsson
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Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic imagination, they relate intriguing, often comical tales of famous kings, difficult gods and women of great beauty, goodness or cunning. The tales plunder a wide range of earlier literature from Homer to the French romances - as in the tale of the show more wandering hero Arrow-Odd, which combines several older legends, or Egil and Asmund, where the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops is skilfully adapted into a traditional Norse legend. These are among the most outrageous, delightful and exhilarating tales in all Icelandic literature. show lessTags
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Contains: Arrow-Odds saga (Örvar-odds saga) -- King Gautrek (Gautreks saga) -- Halfdan Eysteinsson (Halfdanar saga Eysteinssonar) -- Bosi and Herraud (Bosa saga ok Herrauðs) -- Egil and Asmund -- Thorstein Mansion-might -- Helgi Thorisson
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- Canonical title
- Seven Viking Romances
- Original publication date
- 1985
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- The imaginative literature of medieval Iceland which we call 'the sagas' displays a remarkable diversity of modes and materials, ranging from naturalistic stories about farmers and farmhands in the authors' native Iceland to ... (show all)tales of pure fantasy, the adventures of imaginary kings and princes in strange and distant lands.
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- Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 839.610308 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Icelandic, Faroese literatures Old Norse poetry Romantic and epic
- LCC
- PT7262 .E5 .S48 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Old Norse literature: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian Collections Prose Sagas
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