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SAGAS OF WARRIOR-POETS
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By: |
Leifur Eiricksson, Diana Whaley (Editor) |
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ISBN 10: |
0140447717 |
ISBN 13: |
9780140447712 |
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Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
29 August, 2002 |
Pages: |
400 |
Translated from: |
Icelandic |
Description: |
Set in the farmsteads of Viking-age Iceland when the old ethos of honour and heroic adventure merged with ideas of romance, each of these sagas features poet heroes, complex love triangles and travels to foreign lands. |
Synopsis: |
Kormak's Saga, The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue, The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Hitardal People, Viglund's Saga Set in the farmsteads of Viking age Iceland at a time when the old ethos of honour and heroic adventure merged with new ideas of romantic infatuation, each of these sagas features poet heroes, complex love triangles, and travels to foreign lands. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Penguin Classics |
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