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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 019280152X
A sweeping epic of the Viking Age, Grettir's Saga follows the life of the outlaw Grettir the Strong as he battles against sorcery, bad luck, and the vengefulness of his enemies. Among the most famous and widely read of Iceland's sagas, this new translation features extensive illustrative material to elucidate the story.
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Legends
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141937920
Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age becoming eclipsed by Christianity and a more pastoral lifestyle. Unable to settle into a community of farmers, Grettir becomes the aggressive scourge of both honest men and evil monsters - until, following a battle with the sinister ghost Glam, he is cursed to endure a life of tortured loneliness away from civilisation, fighting giants, trolls and berserks. A mesmerising combination of pagan ideals and Christian faith, this is a profoundly moving conclusion to the Golden Age of the saga writing.
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 1965
Category : English literature
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Denton Fox
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802061656
Grettir's saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. It tells the life and death of Grettir, a great rebel, individualist, and romantic hero. This volume includes genealogies and a study of the legal system.
Author : George Ainslie Hight
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781934941096
Viking tales of heroes, villains, warriors, explorers and kings, told around campfires and mead halls for centuries. The stories of Grettir the Strong, and of Kormac the Skald. And the saga of Erik the Red, who settled Greenland, and his son Leif the Lucky, who sailed to America centuries before Columbus.
Author : Snorri Sturluson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0141915072
This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led to his death and marked the end of an era in which Europe had been dominated by the threat of Scandinavian forces. Despite England's triumph, it also played a crucial part in fatally weakening the English army immediately prior to the Norman Conquest, changing the course of history. Taken from the Heimskringla - Snorri Sturluson's complete account of Norway from prehistoric times to 1177 - this is a brilliantly human depiction of the turbulent life and savage death of the last great Norse warrior-king.
Author : S. Baring-Gould
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752344342
Reproduction of the original: Grettir the Outlaw by S. Baring-Gould
Author : Anthony Faulkes
Publisher : Viking Society for Northern Research University College
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780903521666
Here are three epic stories of exile and adventure: the heroes condemned to wander their lands in expiation of crimes committed in honour's name. The book includes an introduction, notes, a text summary and a chronology of early Icelandic literature.
