Seven Viking Romances

Name: Seven Viking Romances
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ISBN: 9780140444742

ISBN-10: 0140444742

ISBN-13: 9780140444742

Edition: N/A

Authors: Hermann Pï¿½lsson, Paul Edwards, None

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Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic imagination, they relate intriguing, often comical tales of famous kings, difficult gods and women of great beauty, goodness or cunning. The tales plunder a wide range of earlier literature from Homer to the French romances - as in the tale of the wandering hero Arrow-Odd, which combines several older legends, or Egil and Asmund, where the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops is skilfully adapted into a traditional Norse legend. These are among the…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/7/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.72" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Paul Edwards has coauthored eight books with his wife, including the bestselling Working From Home. He also write a syndicated newspaper column, "Your Home Office," and host a popular cable TV show, "Working From Home with Paul and Sarah Edwards".