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Icelandic Histories and Romance (Revealing History (Paperback))

Icelandic Histories and Romance (Revealing History (Paperback))

by RalphO'Connor (Author), Anne O ' Connor (Author)

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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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: 2Rev Ed
 Publisher: The History Press
Published: 01 Jan 2006
ISBN 10: 0752428942
ISBN 13: 9780752428949

Media Reviews
'All in all, this is a splendid production, easily accessible to the general reader but with a critical apparatus to satisfy the most stringent academic demands.' Magnus Magnusson writing for The Guardian
Author Bio
Ralph O'Connor is a 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.