The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok (Hackett Classics) - Softcover

Jackson Crawford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1624666337 ISBN 13: 9781624666339

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US), 2017

Synopsis

From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members--including, among others, the dragon-slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.

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About the Author

Jackson Crawford holds an MA in linguistics from the University of Georgia and a PhD in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. From 2011 to 2020 he taught the Old Norse language, as well as courses in Norse mythology and Old Norse saga literature, at major universities including UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the University of Colorado Boulder. During that time, he also served as a consultant on a popular video game, television programs, and major Hollywood films. Since 2020 he has been an independent educator, using his YouTube channel and popular translations of Norse myths and sagas from Hackett Publishing to reach hundreds of thousands of viewers and readers with well-sourced information about Norse language, mythology, and runes. His research interests today focus on the relationship of the runes to Mediterranean alphabets, as well as the use of linguistic criteria to determine the date of Old Norse texts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1624666337
• ISBN 13: 9781624666339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184