Friis Jensen Karsten Editor (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Book is gently used with some wear to cover and page edges. Previous owner's name stamped on inside of front cover. Tightly bound copy with clean interior having no markings, writing, underlining, or highlighting in margins or text block. Inv. # 13271.

orig. wrappers. 23x15cm, 173 pp., Series: Danish Medieval History & Saxo Grammaticus, vol. 2. Contains 10 papers, all in English. Includes: The Angers fragment and the archetype of Gesta Danorum; The place of fiction in Saxo's later books; Wit and eloquence in the courts of Saxo's early kings; On translating Saxo into English; The Lay of Ingellus and its classical models; The Icelandic sources of Saxo Gammaticus; Order in Gesta Danorum and order in the Creation; An Eiriks páttr málspaka? Some conjectures on the source of Saxo's Ericus Disertus; The way to Byzantium: A study in the first three books of Saxos' History of Denmark; Women in Gesta Danorum: Saxo's description of women compared with Snorres; Thyre Danebod in Desta Danorum. Name on half-title, Light corner bumps. VG.…