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Seven Viking Romances

2005-05-26 Fiction
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Release : 2005-05-26
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Seven Viking Romances written by . This book was released on 2005-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 most outrageous, delightful and exhilarating tales in all Icelandic literature.

Seven Viking Romances

2005-05-26 Literary Collections
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Release : 2005-05-26
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 742/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Seven Viking Romances by : none

Download or read book Seven Viking Romances written by none. This book was released on 2005-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 most outrageous, delightful and exhilarating tales in all Icelandic literature.

Two Viking Romances

1996-03 Fiction
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Release : 1996-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 567/5 ( reviews)

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The Book of the Seven Delights

2005 Librarians
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Release : 2005
Genre : Librarians
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Book Rating : 723/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Book of the Seven Delights by : Betina Krahn

Download or read book The Book of the Seven Delights written by Betina Krahn. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librarian Abigail Merchant stumbles upon the journals of an eccentric scholar, leading her on a quest to find the Great Library of Alexandria and recover a priceless artifact with the help of an ex-legionnaire with a checkered past.

Vikings and Goths

2016-06-28 History
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Release : 2016-06-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Vikings and Goths by : Gary Dean Peterson

Download or read book Vikings and Goths written by Gary Dean Peterson. This book was released on 2016-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vikings descended upon Europe at the close of the 8th century, invading the continent's western seas and river systems, trading, raiding and spreading terror. In the north, they settled Iceland and Greenland and reached North America. In the east, Swedish Varangians established a river road to the Orient. With the collapse of the Viking commercial empire, Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries struggled to survive, their hardships exacerbated by internal strife, foreign domination and the Black Death. This book details the development of Scandinavia--Sweden in particular--from the end of the Ice Age, through a series of prehistoric cultures, the Bronze and Iron ages, to the Viking period and late Middle Ages. Recent research suggests a Swedish origin of the Goths, who helped dismember the Roman Empire, and evidence of Swedish participation in the western Viking expeditions. Special attention is given to Eastern Europe, where Sweden dominated commerce through the conquest of trade towns and the river systems of Russia.

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