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folklore
iceland
icelandic sagas
legend
legends
literary
muslim germany
myth
myths
northern gods
old northern gods
saga
scholar
the vikings
traditional tales
troll
troll-women
trolls
viking
vikings
Product details
- ISBN 9780752428949
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2004
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
RALPH O'CONNOR is 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.
