The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun

Tolkien, J. R. R.

ISBN 10: 0547273428 / ISBN 13: 9780547273426

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547273428
• ISBN 13: 9780547273426
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.

About the Author

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction asThe Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and The Children of Húrin. His books have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

 

Christopher Tolkien is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. Appointed by Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself to the editing and publication of unpublished writings, notablyThe Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-Earth, andThe Children of Húrin.