Icelandic Histories and Romance - Softcover

O'Connor, Ralph

 
9780752428949: Icelandic Histories and Romance

Synopsis

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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About the Author

RALPH O'CONNOR is Fellow in Irish and Icelandic Literature at St John’s College, Cambridge, and lectures in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. His publications include work on Irish and Icelandic sagas, English Romantic poetry, and nineteenth-century dinosaurs.

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ISBN 10:  0752419528 ISBN 13:  9780752419527
Publisher: The History Press, 2002
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