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  • The Prose Edda

    by Jesse Byock ...
    The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves and elves struggle for survival. It also preserves the oral memory of heroes, warrior kings and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

    Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Egil's Saga

    Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggering brutality. The saga recounts Egil's progression from youthful savagery to mature wisdom as he struggles to avenge his father's exile from ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Norse Paganism: Unearthing the Rich Tapestry of Norse Spirituality, Rune Mysteries, and Ceremonial Rites [II EDITION]

    Mythology, Magical Heroes and Creatures, #2

    by Nolan Lested ...
    Series Book 2 - Mythology, Magical Heroes and Creatures
    Do you want to know the true origin of Norse Paganism and Runes?YOU ARE ABOUT TO UNLOCK THE TRUTH THAT ANYONE HAS NEVER REVEALED TO YOU IN MOVIES OR SCHOOL!I guess you have already seen many movies on this subject and maybe read dozens of forums and the only thing you could find in common are the characters' names but not the story behind it.Everyone tweaks it to make it fit their content, but the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kalevala

    Translated by Keith Bosley ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north-west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Eyrbyggja Saga

    Translated by Hermann Palsson, Paul Edwards ...
    An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sagas of Warrior-poets

    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sagas and Myths of the Northmen

    by Jesse Byock ...
    In a land of ice, great warriors search for glory...When a dragon threatens the people of the north, only one man can destroy the fearsome beast. Elsewhere, a mighty leader gathers a court of champions, including a noble warrior under a terrible curse. The Earth's creation is described; tales of the gods and evil Frost Giants are related; and the dark days of Ragnarok foretold.Journey into a realm ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Saga of the Volsungs

    Series series Legends from the Ancient North
    Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, Beowulf is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'So the company of men led a careless life,All was well with them: until One beganTo encompass evil, an enemy from hell.Grendel they called this cruel spirit...'J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Seven Viking Romances

    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Saga of the Jómsvíkings

    A loyal translation of the medieval Icelandic saga of a strong ruler and his men versus a brotherhood of fierce Viking mercenaries.In A.D. 986, Earl Hákon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjórunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Two ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mapping Ultima Thule

    Representations of North Greenland in the Expedition Accounts of Knud Rasmussen

    Series Book 21 - Studien zur Germanistik, Skandinavistik und Uebersetzungskultur
    The book addresses the relationship between the literary representations of North Greenland and the Inughuit people in Knud Rasmussen’s expedition accounts The New People and My Travel Diary and the historical process of Danish colonization of North Greenland. The aim of reading both works is to demonstrate the ambivalence in representing North Greenland and the Inughuit, and, through this, to ... Read more

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  • Norse Mythology: All about Vikings

    Norse Mythology for Kids

    Series series Children's Norse Folk Tales
    How much do you know about Vikings, other than them being a really brave people? Add more facts to your knowledge of them by going over this wonderfully graphic educational book. Composed of images in vibrant colors, this book will make learning a much more personalized experience. The use of pictures is admirable because these are universal languages that facilitate effective learning strategies. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Viking Age

    A Reader, Third Edition

    Series series Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
    In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through the remarkable range and variety of sources presented as well as the geographical and chronological coverage of the readings.The third edition has ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Boat in the Evening

    by Tarjei Vesaas ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan ...
    Series series Peter Owen Modern Classic
    Earning its author a third nomination for the Nobel Prize, this tale centers on a crane colony arriving at its breeding ground to play out a delicate drama, ending with the rarely observed ceremony of the ritual dance. All is observed by a transfixed child who has frozen into his background and become a piece of nature himself. With a kind of cinematic impressionism, this novel voyages back to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Elder Edda

    Series series Legends from the Ancient North
    Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'So the company of men led a careless life,All was well with them: until One beganTo encompass evil, an enemy from hell.Grendel they called this cruel spirit...'J.R.R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders

    Series Book 11 - Studies in Old Norse Literature
    First full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed.Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern readers and critics often praise their ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Swedish Theory of Love

    Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden

    Translated by Stephen Donovan ...
    Series series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
    In 2020 Sweden's response to COVID-19 drew renewed attention to the Nordic nation in a way that put the finger on a seeming paradox. Long celebrated for its commitment to social solidarity, Sweden suddenly emerged as the last country in the West to resist lockdown while defending individual rights and responsibilities. To explain these contradictions, Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh argue that ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Authorship and Authority in Kierkegaard's Writings

    Edited by Joseph Westfall ...
    Authorship is a complicated subject in Kierkegaard's work, which he surely recognized, given his late attempts to explain himself in On My Work as an Author. From the use of multiple pseudonyms and antonyms, to contributions across a spectrum of media and genres, issues of authorship abound.Why did Kierkegaard write in the ways he did? Before we assess Kierkegaard's famous thoughts on faith or ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (The Annotated Books)

    Series Book 0 - The Annotated Books
    A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars.In her most ambitious annotated work to date, Maria Tatar celebrates the stories told by Denmark's "perfect wizard" and re-envisions Hans Christian Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. Andersen's most beloved tales, such as ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Nidrstigningar Saga

    Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell”

    Series series Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)
    The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • From Iceland to the Americas

    Vinland and historical imagination

    by James Paz ...
    Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
    This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Henrik Ibsen

    “G. Wilson Knight approaches Ibsen in substantially the same way he approaches Shakespeare. By weaving a fabric of countless quotations from the plays, he attempts primarily to reconstruct Ibsen’s vision rather than to judge it. What emerges most clearly from his examination are Ibsen’s dominant themes. Knight sees Ibsen’s ‘emphasis on vocation, on the instinctive will, forcing persons to self ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Henrik Ibseb's A Doll's House: Themes and Elements of Style

    A Guide to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, #2

    Series Book 2 - A Guide to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
    Following the first book on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House which examined the PLOT of the playand the CHARACTERS, this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE in the play. This allows the critic of the playto have a comprehensive view of what the play is about, how it is crafted, who the major characters are and what kind of style the playwright adopts. This should prepare any student of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus